| Description |
viii, 232 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The family of social approaches -- Critiquing the social model -- Disability : a complex interaction -- Labels and badges -- Questioning prenatal diagnosis -- Just around the corner : the quest for cure -- Autonomy at the end of life -- Care, support and assistance -- Disability rights and the future of charity -- Love, friendship and intimacy -- The role of non-disabled people in the world of disability -- Concluding thoughts |
| Summary |
"Over the past thirty years, the field of disability studies has emerged from the political activism of disabled people. In this challenging re-evaluation, leading disability academic and activist Tom Shakespeare now argues that social model theory has reached a dead end." |
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"Drawing on a critical realist perspective, Shakespeare promotes a pluralist, engaged and nuanced approach to disability. Rather than rejecting research in medical sociology, bioethics and social care, disability studies needs to re-engage with the fundamental questions of what disability is, and how the lives of disabled people can be improved. Topics discussed include: dichotomies - the dangerous polarisations of medical model versus social model, impairment versus disability and disabled people versus non-disabled people; identity - the drawbacks of the disability movement's emphasis on identity politics; bioethics in disability - choices at the beginning and end of life, and in the field of genetic and stem cell therapies; and, care and social relationships - questions of intimacy, friendship and the role of non-disabled people." |
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"This stimulating and accessible book challenges British disability studies orthodoxies, and promotes a fresh research agenda. It will be required reading for researchers and students in disability studies, medical sociology and social care, and will have applications for professionals, policy-makers and activists."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-226) and index |
| Subject |
Disability studies.
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Sociology of disability.
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People with disabilities.
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| LC no. |
2006005688 |
| ISBN |
041534719X paperback |
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0415347181 hardback |
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