
- 234 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
Deborah Marks examines current theories and practices relating to disability. The focus of the work is not disabled people as 'objects' of study but rather an analysis of disability as it has been historically and culturally constructed and psychically experienced. The chapters cover:
* language and discourse
* the disabled people's movement
* the 'disability' professions
* public policy
* unconscious investments and interpersonal relationships
* knowledge and the politics of disability.
This text will be essential reading for students on the growing number of Disability Studies courses, as well as students, policy-makers and professionals in social policy, social work, cultural studies and nursing.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Interdisciplinary studies, fragmented identities and psychic investments
- 2 Valuing lives
- 3 Medicine and its allied professions
- 4 The social construction of disability
- 5 Dynamics of care and control: meeting social and psychic needs
- 6 Causes, complexity and process of categorising ‘impairment’
- 7 Does language disable people?
- 8 Investments in images
- Closing comments: interdisciplinary connections, action and identity
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index