Disability

The Basics
2. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-032-89836-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm

Reihe: The Basics

This fully revised and expanded new edition of Disability: The Basics, is an engaging and accessible text which explores the broad historical, social, environmental, economic and legal factors which affect the experiences of those living with an impairment or illness in contemporary society.

The book explores key introductory topics including:

- the diversity of the disability experience

- disability rights and advocacy

- ways in which disabled people have been treated throughout history and in different parts of the world

- the daily realities of living with an impairment or illness

- health, education, employment and other services that exist to support and include disabled people

- ethical issues at the beginning and end of life

- a new chapter on culture and representations of disability

- a new chapter on climate change and disability

Providing an understanding of the lived experiences of disabled people whilst highlighting the continuing gaps and barriers in social responses to the challenge of disability, this textbook will be of interest to general readers and students of disability studies, as well as those studying a disability module as part of a wider course within social work, health care, sociology, nursing, policy and media studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Reference, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shakespeare, Tom

Wilde, Alison

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Gesundheitssystem, Gesundheitswesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.Understanding disability 2.Disability in history 3.Disability in culture 4.A life worth living 5.Disabling barriers  6.Health and social care  7.Disability in education  8.Disability and bioethics  9.The politics of disability  10.Disability in a warming world

Über Autor(innen)

Tom Shakespeare is Professor of Disability Research at the International Centre for Evidence in Disability at The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK. He is the author and editor of Disability Research Today and Disability Rights and Wrongs Revisited, both published by Routledge, and of the novels The Ha-ha and The Ends, both published by Farrago.

Alison Wilde is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at Northumbria University, UK. She is the author of Film, Comedy and Disability, and an editor of The Routledge International Handbook of Feminist Disability Studies, both published by Routledge. She is also the Series Editor for Peter Lang’s Disability, Media, Culture book series.