Controversial Issues In A Disabling Society
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2003
216 pages
978-0-335-23292-5 (ISBN)
Description
Controversial Issues in a Disabling Society has been written specifically to raise questions and stimulate debate. It has been designed for use with students in group discussion, and to support in-depth study on a variety of professional courses. It covers a wide range of specific, substantive issues within Disability Studies in a series of succinct chapters. Each chapter sets a question for debate, places the key issues in context and presents a particular argument. This is an accessible and engaging book which challenges dominant positions and ideologies from a social model viewpoint of disability.
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Content
- Front Cover
- Half-title
- Series Editor Page
- Title Page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Sereis editor's preface
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction: enabling questions
- What is this about?
- Who is this book for?
- What is in this book?
- How to use this book
- Part 1: Foundations
- Chapter 1: What's in a name?
- Mind your language
- Disabling and enabling labels
- Questioning lables
- Further reading
- Chapter 2: Whose modes?
- Ways of thinking about the social world
- Models of disability
- Dyslexia: disability or difference?
- Further reading
- Chapter 3: What is 'disability studies'?
- What is knowledge?
- The emergence of disability studies
- Disability studies in practice
- Further reading
- Part 2: Values and ideologies
- Chapter 4: Controlling life?
- The genetic revolution
- Genetic medicine and disability
- Coping with genetic impairment: Huntington's disease
- Further reading
- Chapter 5: A dividing society?
- Questions of social divisions
- Disabled people and multiple discrimination
- A childhood apart
- Further reading
- Chapter 6: Celebrating difference?
- Being different
- Celebrating disability and impairmemt
- From tragedy to pride: disability arts
- Further reading
- Chapter 7: What's so good about independence?
- What is independence?
- Disabled people and independence
- Direct payments
- Further reading
- Chapter 8: Will you put your hand in your pocket?
- Sweet or cold charity?
- Rights not charity
- Connect: a new charity for people with aphasia
- Further reading
- Chapter 9: Whose body
- Theorizing the body
- Disabled body projects
- 'Was it fuck the MS'
- Further reading
- Part 3: Policy, provision and practice
- Chapter 10: Policy: is inclusion better than integration?
- Questions of inclusion
- Social inclusion and disabled people
- Integration, inclusion and education policy
- Further reading
- Chapter 11: Provision: who needs special needs?
- Who needs needs?
- What's so special?
- Teachers' conceptions of 'speclalness'
- Further reading
- Chapter 12: Practice: are professionals parasites?
- What is a professional?
- Professional power: diabled people's experiences
- An alternative service
- Further reading
- Chapter 13: Policy, provision and practice: care or control?
- What is 'care'?
- Do disabled people need 'care'?
- An alternative to 'care'
- Further reading
- Chapter 14: Politics: where does change come from?
- Social movements and social change
- The disabled people's movements and social change
- The British Disability Discrimination Act 1995
- Further reading
- Conclusion: enabling or disaling globalization?
- A global world
- The impact of globalization on disabled people
- Coming together: international organizations of disabled people
- Further reading
- References
- Index
- Back Cover
