Disability Research Today

International Perspectives
Herausgeber: Shakespeare, Tom

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Grouped around four central themes - illness and impairment, disabling processes, care and control, and communication and representations - this exciting collection offers a fresh perspective on disability research, showing how theory and data can be brought together in new and exciting ways. New Directions in Disability Research opens by showing how engaging with issues around illness and impairment is vital to a multi-disciplinary understanding of disability as a social process. The second section explores factors that disabled people, such as homelessness, violence and unemployment. The third section turns to social care, and how disabled people are prevented from living with independence and dignity. Finally, the last section examines how different imagery and technology impacts our understandings of disability and Deafness. Showcasing empirical work from a range of countries, including Japan, Norway, Italy, Australia, India, the UK, Turkey, Finland and Iceland, this collection shows how disability studies can be simultaneously sophisticated, accessible and policy-relevant. New Directions in Disability Research is suitable for students and researchers in disability studies, sociology, social policy, social work, nursing and health studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780415748438
• ISBN-10: 0415748437
• Artikelnr.: 41610711

Autorenporträt

Tom Shakespeare is Senior Lecturer in Medical Sociology at the Medical School of the University of East Anglia, UK. Previously he worked for the World Health Organization, where he was an author and editor of the World Report on Disability (WHO, 2011), and International Perspectives on Spinal Cord Injury (WHO, 2013). His books include The Sexual Politics of Disability (Cassell, 1996) and Disability Rights and Wrongs (Routledge 2006, 2013). He has been involved in the disability movement since 1986.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Part 1: Illness and Impairment 2. Social Experiences of
Physical Rehabilitation: The Role of the Family 3. Learning from Tojisha
Kenkyu: Mental Health 'Patients' Studying Their Difficulties with Their
Peers 4. The Psycho-Social Impact of Impairment: The Case of Motor Neurone
Disease Part 2: Disabling Processes 5. Beyond the ICF: Italian Network
Strategies for Job Placement of Persons with Disabilities 6. Sites of
Oppression: Dominant Ideologies and Women with Disabilities in India 7. How
to Understand Violence Against Disabled People 8. 'The Invisibles':
Conceptualising the Intersectional Relationships Between Dyslexia, Social
Exclusion and Homelessness Part 3: Care and Control 9. Spaces of
indifference: bureaucratic governance and disability rights in Iceland 10.
Mental Capacity and the Control of Sexuality of People with Intellectual
Disabilites in England and Wales 11. 'My Sister Won't Let Me': Issues of
Control Over One's Own Life as Experienced by Older Women with Intellectual
Disabilities Part 4: Communication and Representation 12. Social
Representations and Inclusive Practices for Disabled Students in Italian
Higher Education: A Mixed-method Analysis of Multiple Perspectives 13. The
Problem of the Supercrip: Representation and Misrepresentation of
Disability 14. User, Client or Consumer? Construction of Roles in Video
Interpreting Services 15. Reading Other Minds: Ethical Considerations on
the Representation of Intellectual Disability in Fiction