Disability and social change

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-84742-787-8
Verlag: Policy Press

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 505 g

Combining critical policy analysis with biographical accounts, this book provides a socio-historical account of the changing treatment of disabled people in Britain from the 1940s to the present day. It asks whether life has really changed for disabled people and shows the value of using biographical methods in new and critical ways to examine social and historical change over time.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shah, Sonali

Priestley, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Disability and social change; Researching lives, telling stories; Family and friendship; Medicalisation and de-medicalisation; Education; Employment; Becoming 'disabled'; The past, the present and the future

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Sonali Shah is an academic researcher in the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds. This book is the result of a three-year New Career Development Fellowship she was awarded by the Nuffield Foundation.

Mark Priestley is Professor of Disability Policy and Director of the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds. He is currently Scientific Director of the European Commission's Academic Network of European Disability experts (ANED).