Gebundenes Buch

Disability, Normalcy, and the Everyday

Beschreibung

What does the everyday reality of being disabled mean for those involved? Bringing together a range of qualitative methodologies, interviews and ethnographies in a global context, this collection highlights the mundane interactions and everyday occurrences in the lives of people with disabilities across the life-course. It will provide an excellent resource for disability studies, health and wellbeing, illness, and healthcare.

Autor

Gareth M. Thomas is a Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University, UK. He is a sociologist interested in medicine, disability, stigma, reproduction, and place. His first research monograph - Down's Syndrome Screening and Reproductive Politics: Care, Choice, and Disability in the Prenatal Clinic - was published by Routledge in March 2017. Dikaios Sakellariou is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Healthcare Sciences at Cardiff University, UK. He is interested in health inequalities, experiences of disability and disablement, and the intersubjective nature of care practices. He has co-authored and co-edited the volumes A Political Practice of Occupational Therapy and Occupational Therapies without Borders (with Nick Pollard and Frank Kronenberg), and Politics of Occupation-Centred Practice (with Nick Pollard).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 511g
• ISBN-13: 9781138214217
• ISBN-10: 1138214213
• Artikelnr.: 52008722