Handbook of Disability Studies

Gary L. Albrecht, Katherine Delores Seelman, Michael Bury

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 2001
• ISBN:
  9781452212531
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medicina
• Subtopic: Teoría, práctica y referencia médicas

This path-breaking Handbook of Disability Studies signals the emergence of a vital new area of scholarship, social policy and activism. Drawing on the insights of disability scholars around the world and the creative advice of an international editorial board, the book engages the reader in the critical issues and debates framing disability studies and places them in an historical and cultural context. Five years in the making, this one volume summarizes the ongoing discourse ranging across continents and traditional academic disciplines.

The Handbook answers the need expressed by the disability community for a thought provoking, interdisciplinary, international examination of the vibrant field of disability

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: The Formation of Disability Studies
• Part I - The Shaping of Disability Studies as a Field
• Chapter 1 - An Institutional History of Disability
• Chapter 2 - Counting Disability
• Chapter 3 - Disability Definitions, Models, Classification Schemes, and Applications
• Chapter 4 - Theorizing Disability
• Chapter 5 - Methodological Paradigms That Shape Disability Research
• Chapter 6 - Disability: An Interactive Person-Environment Social Creation
• Chapter 7 - Representation and Its Discontents: The Uneasy Home of Disability in Literature and Film
• Chapter 8 - Philosophical Issues in the Definition and Social Response to Disability
• Chapter 9 - Disability and the Sociology of the Body
• Chapter 10 - Intellectual Disabilities—Quo Vadis?
• Chapter 11 - Disability, Bioethics, and Human Rights
• Chapter 12 - Disability Studies and Electronic Networking
• Part II - Experiencing Disability
• Chapter 13 - Divided Understandings: The Social Experience of Disability
• Chapter 14 - Mapping the Family: Disability Studies and the Exploration of Parental Response to Disability
• Chapter 15 - Disability and Community: A Sociological Approach
• Chapter 16 - Welfare States and Disabled People
• Chapter 17 - Advocacy and Political Action
• Chapter 18 - Health Care Professionals and Their Attitudes toward Decisions Affecting Disabled People
• Chapter 19 - The Role of Social Networks in the Lives of Persons with Disabilities
• Chapter 20 - Inclusion/Exclusion: An Analysis of Historical and Cultural Meanings
• Part III - Disability in Context
• Chapter 21 - Disability Culture: Assimilation or Inclusion?
• Chapter 22 - Identity Politics, Disability, and Culture
• Chapter 23 - Making the Difference: Disability, Politics, and Recognition
• Chapter 24 - Disability Human Rights, Law, and Policy
• Chapter 25 - The Political Economy of the Disability Marketplace
• Chapter 26 - Disability and Health Policy: The Role of Markets in the Delivery of Health Services
• Chapter 27 - Disability Benefit Programs: Can We Improve the Return-to-Work Record?
• Chapter 28 - A Disability Studies Perspective on Employment Issues and Policies for Disabled People: An International View
• Chapter 29 - Science and Technology Policy: Is Disability a Missing Factor?
• Chapter 30 - Disability, Education, and Inclusion: Cross-Cultural Issues and Dilemmas
• Chapter 31 - Support Systems: The Interface between Individuals and Environments
• Chapter 32 - The Relationship between Disabled People and Health and Welfare Professionals
• Chapter 33 - Public Health Trends in Disability: Past, Present, and Future
• Chapter 34 - Disability in the Developing World
• Author Index
• Subject Index
• About the Contributors