Full Description
Understanding Disability develops some of the main themes and issues surrounding disability that have arisen in the last twenty years, offering both a personal journey of exploration and understanding and an attempt to take further our theoretical understanding of disability.
Contents
From Personal Struggle to Political Understanding.- Fundamental Principles of Disability.- The Social Model in Context Citizenship, Welfare and Community.- Care Social Policy and Welfare: From Needs to Rights Education for All?.- Rehabilitating Society.- The World of Disability.- Understanding the Hegemony of Disability.- Disability, Politics and Citizenship.- Intellectuals and the Disability Movement.