The Disability Business
Rehabilitation in America
Gary L. Albrecht(Author)
SAGE Publications Inc (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 13. July 1992
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-0-8039-3631-7 (ISBN)
Description
This comprehensive volume examines the `big business', such as health care corporations and insurance companies, that has grown up around rehabilitation of the disabled in the United States, and the impact that this has had on care.
Albrecht discusses how the quality of care is influenced by income, income potential and insurance cover and traces how the financial growth in this industry has changed the nature of the care provided. He also presents a realistic assessment of the policy options and solutions available to a society that values equity in ensuring that quality rehabilitation services are equally available to all.
Albrecht discusses how the quality of care is influenced by income, income potential and insurance cover and traces how the financial growth in this industry has changed the nature of the care provided. He also presents a realistic assessment of the policy options and solutions available to a society that values equity in ensuring that quality rehabilitation services are equally available to all.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8039-3631-7 (9780803936317)
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Gary L. Albrecht is a Fellow of the Royal Belgian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Extraordinary Guest Professor of Social Sciences, University of Leuven, Belgium and Professor Emeritus of Public Health and of Disability and Human Development at the University of Illinois at Chicago. After receiving his Ph.D. from Emory University, he has served on the faculties of Emory University in Sociology and Psychiatry, Northwestern University in Sociology, Rehabilitation Medicine and the Kellogg School of Management and the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in the School of Public Health and in the Department of Disability and Human Development. Since retiring from the UIC in 2005, he divides his time between Europe and the United States. He works in Boulder, Colorado and Brussels, Belgium. He was recently a Scholar in Residence at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (MSH) in Paris, a visiting Fellow at Nuffield College, the University of Oxford and a Fellow in Residence at the Royal Flemish Academy of Science and Arts, Brussels
Content
Prologue
From Personal Experiences to Theory and Policy
PART ONE: DISABILITY AS A SOCIAL PHENOMENON
The Transformation of Disability into a Commodity
The Production and Distribution of Disability in Society
The Social Meaning of Impairment and Interpretation of Disability
PART TWO: SOCIAL RESPONSES TO DISABILITY
The Law and Politics of Rehabilitation
The Rehabilitation Industry
Rehabilitation Professionals
The Marketing of Rehabilitation Goods and Services
The Rehabilitation Process
PART THREE: FROM SOCIAL THEORY TO SOCIAL POLICY
The Consumer
Social Policies for the Disabled
From Personal Experiences to Theory and Policy
PART ONE: DISABILITY AS A SOCIAL PHENOMENON
The Transformation of Disability into a Commodity
The Production and Distribution of Disability in Society
The Social Meaning of Impairment and Interpretation of Disability
PART TWO: SOCIAL RESPONSES TO DISABILITY
The Law and Politics of Rehabilitation
The Rehabilitation Industry
Rehabilitation Professionals
The Marketing of Rehabilitation Goods and Services
The Rehabilitation Process
PART THREE: FROM SOCIAL THEORY TO SOCIAL POLICY
The Consumer
Social Policies for the Disabled