| Description |
1 online resource (254 pages) |
| Contents |
Part 1: Illness and Impairment -- -- Social Experiences of Physical Rehabilitation : The Role of the Family / Dikmen Bezmez and Sibel Yardımcı -- Learning from Tojisha Kenkyu : Mental Health 'Patients' Studying Their Difficulties with Their Peers / Kohji Ishihara -- The Psycho-Social Impact of Impairment : The Case of Motor Neurone Disease / Jo Ferrie and Nick Watson -- -- Part 2: Disabling Processes -- -- Beyond the ICF : Italian Network Strategies for Job Placement of Persons with Disabilities / Fabio Corbisiero -- Sites of Oppression : Dominant Ideologies and Women with Disabilities in India / Nandini Ghosh -- How to Understand Violence Against Disabled People / Halvor Hanisch -- 'The Invisibles' : Conceptualising the Intersectional Relationships Between Dyslexia, Social Exclusion and Homelessness / Stephen Macdonald -- -- Part 3: Care and Control -- -- Spaces of indifference : bureaucratic governance and disability rights in Iceland / James Rice, Eirikur Smith and Kristin Björnsdóttir -- Mental Capacity and the Control of Sexuality of People with Intellectual Disabilites in England and Wales / Lucy Series -- 'My Sister Won't Let Me' : Issues of Control Over One's Own Life as Experienced by Older Women with Intellectual Disabilities / Iva Strnadová -- -- Part 4: Communication and Representation -- -- Social Representations and Inclusive Practices for Disabled Students in Italian Higher Education : A Mixed-method Analysis of Multiple Perspectives / Fabio Ferrucci and Michela Cortini -- The Problem of the Supercrip : Representation and Misrepresentation of Disability / Jan Grue -- User, Client or Consumer? Construction of Roles in Video Interpreting Services / Hilde Haualand -- Reading Other Minds : Ethical Considerations on the Representation of Intellectual Disability in Fiction / Howard Sklar |
| Summary |
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 turn |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Text in English |
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Disabilities.
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People with disabilities.
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Interpersonal relations.
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Social perception.
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Social ecology.
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Disabled Persons
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Social Behavior
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Social Environment
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Social Perception
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human ecology.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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Social ecology
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Disabilities
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Interpersonal relations
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People with disabilities
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Social perception
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Shakespeare, Tom, 1966- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781317750956 |
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1317750950 |
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1315796570 |
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9781315796574 |
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9781317750949 |
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1317750942 |
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9781317750932 |
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1317750934 |
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