Disability Research Today - International Perspectives (Paperback)

Grouped around four central themes - illness and impairment, disabling processes, care and control, and communication and representations - this collection offers a fresh perspective on disability research, showing how theory and data can be brought together in new and exciting ways. Disability Research Today starts by showing how engaging with issues around illness and impairment is vital to a multidisciplinary understanding of disability as a social process. The second section explores factors that affect 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. Disability Research Today is suitable for students and researchers in disability studies, sociology, social policy, social work, nursing and health studies.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2015
First published:	2015
Editors:	Tom Shakespeare
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	254
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-74844-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Disability: social aspects Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > Personal & public health > General
LSN:	0-415-74844-5
Barcode:	9780415748445

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