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Handbook of Disability Studies

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May 2001 | 864 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
`This remarkable book is unlike any other I have reviewed, for a variety of reasons. Firstly, at 700 pages and with 34 chapters, the sheer scale of the collection is vast. The editors state that the book is not definitive, but represents a creative work in progress. However, the collection certainly provides a unique insight into the current debates and issues which frame disability studies, combining a variety of different backgrounds and a diverse range of experiences, and this manifests in the way that the chapters range across academic disciplines. Consequently, the book is aimed at a wide audience including disabled people, practitioners, academics and those involved in forming social welfare policies' - Medical Sociology News

'This text is truly a welcome reference book to any desk, library or organization where people are interested in this field or working with people with a disability' - Nursing & Residential Care

'This text is truly a welcome reference book to any desk, library or organization where people are interested in this field or working with people with a disability' - Nursing & Residential Care

The path-breaking Handbook of Disability Studies signals the emergence of a vital new area of scholarship, social policy and activism. Drawing on the insights of disability scholars around the world and the creative advice of an international editorial board, the book engages the reader in the critical issues and debates framing disability studies and places them in an historical and cultural context. Five years in the making, this one volume summarizes the ongoing discourse ranging across continents and traditional academic disciplines.

The Handbook answers the need expressed by the disability community for a thought provoking, interdisciplinary, international examination of the vibrant field of disability studies. The book is of interest to disabled people, scholars, policy makers and activists alike. The book defines the existing field, stimulates future debate, encourages respectful discourse between different interest groups and moves the field forward.

Gary L Albrecht, Katherine D Seelman, and Michael Bury
Introduction: The Formation of Disability Studies
 
PART ONE: THE SHAPING OF DISABILITIES STUDIES AS A FIELD
David L Braddock and Susan Parish
An Institutional History of Disability
Glenn T Fujiura and Violet Rutkowski-Kmitta
Counting Disability
Barbara Altman
Disability Definitions, Models, Classification Schemes and Applications
Gareth Williams
Theorizing Disability
Scott Campbell Brown
Methodological Paradigms That Shape Disability Research
Patrick Fougeyrollas and Line Beauregard
Disability
An Interactive Person-Environment Social Creation

 
David T Mitchell and Sharon L Snyder
Representation and Its Discontents
The Uneasy Home of Disability in Literature and Film

 
David Wasserman
Philosophical Issues in the Definition and Social Response to Disability
Bryan S Turner
Disability and the Sociology of the Body
Trevor R Parmenter
Intellectual Disabilities- Quo Vadis?
Adrienne Asch
Disability, Bioethics and Human Rights
Ellen Liberti Blasiotti, John D Westbrook, and Iwao Kobayashi
Disability Studies and Electronic Networking
 
PART TWO: EXPERIENCING DISABILITY
Carol Gill
Divided Understandings
The Social Experience of Disability

 
Philip M Ferguson
Mapping the Family
Disability Studies and the Exploration of Parental Response to Disability

 
Michael P Kelly
Disability and Community
A Sociological Approach

 
Robert F Drake
Welfare States and Disabled People
Sharon Barnartt, Kay Schrinerm and Richard Scotch
Advocacy and Political Action
Ian Basnett
Health Care Professionals and Their Attitudes Towards, and Decisions Affecting Disabled People
Bernice A Pescosolido
The Role of Social Networks in the Lives of Persons with Disabilities
Jean-François Ravaud and Henri-Jacques Stiker
Inclusion/Exclusion
An Analysis of Historical and Cultural Meanings

 
 
PART THREE: DISABILITY IN CONTEXT
Colin Barnes and Geoff Mercer
Disability Culture
Assimilation or Inclusion?

 
Lennard J Davis
Identity Politics, Disability and Culture
Tom Shakespeare and Nick Watson
Making the Difference
Disability, Politics, and Recognition

 
Jerome E Bickenbach
Disability Human Rights, Law and Policy
Gary L Albrecht and Michael Bury
The Political Economy of the Disability Marketplace
Gerben DeJong and Ian Basnett
Disability and Health Policy
The Role of Markets in the Delivery of Health Services

 
Bonnie O'Day and Monroe Berkowitz
Disability Benefit Programs
Can We Improve the Return to Work Record?

 
Kay Schriner
A Disability Studies Perspective on Employment Issues and Policies for Disabled People
An International View

 
Katherine D Seelman
Science and Technology Policy
Is Disability a Missing Factor?

 
Len Barton and Felicity Armstrong
Disability, Education and Inclusion
Cross-Cultural Issues and Dilemmas

 
Simi Litvak and Alexandra Enders
Support Systems
The Interface Between Individuals and Environments

 
Sally French and John Swain
The Relationship between Disabled People and Health and Welfare Professionals
Don Lollar
Public Health Trends in Disability
Past, Present, and Future

 
Benedicte Ingstad
Disability in the Developing World

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Ms Nikita K Hayden
Centre for Educational Development, Appraisal & Research (CEDAR), Warwick University
October 4, 2019

An excellent and informative text covering all aspects in disability studies. I would defiantly recommend this book to students.

Miss Jessica Mannion
Business and Humanities, Sligo Institute of Technology
November 21, 2015

Specific student will find elements of this book useful, and specific chapters will be recommended. Good spread of approaches to underpin knowledge.

Ms Lisa Appleyard-Keeling
Sch of Health, Psychology & Soc Care, Manchester Metropolitan University
October 25, 2015

Very useful book for undergraduate Disability Studies students.

Dr Jenny Slater
Education, Childhood and Inclusion, Sheffield Hallam University
November 7, 2012

This handbook offers an excellent and broad overview of most aspects of this in Germany rather new subject. As a handbook it's not so suitable as textbook for a course, but some chapters are good for supplemental reading.

Professor Dieter Kulke
Fakultät Angewandte Sozialwissenschaften, Fachhochschule Würzburg-Schweinfurt
January 9, 2011

An excellent introduction for anyone who is interested in reading and writing about disability. Should be essential reading for programmes in the caring professions

Mrs Connie Johnson
Counselling Studies, Edinburgh University
November 18, 2010

This text does what it says it will. It provides a library of material for the Disability Studies reader.

A second edition would be very helpful but in its absence I recommend this to anyone who has an interest in Disability Studies.

Mrs Dawn Benson
Health community & Education, Northumbria University
October 5, 2010

An excellent, comprehensive collection, which gives a good overview of key areas in the field of disability studies.

Dr Andrea Hollomotz
Department of Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University
July 18, 2010

Gary L. Albrecht

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... More About Author

Katherine D. Seelman

Katherine D. Seelman, Ph.D. is associate dean and professor of rehabilitation science and technology at the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. She holds a secondary appointment in the School of Public Health and is co-scientific director of the National Science Foundation- supported Quality of Life Technology Engineering Research Center. During the Clinton Administration, she served as Director of the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR). Her research and education interests include science and technology R&D trends that enhance independence for people with... More About Author

Michael Bury

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