Disability rights and wrongs revisited / Tom Shakespeare.

  • Shakespeare, Tom, 1966-
Date:
2014
  • Books

About this work

Also known as

Disability rights and wrongs

Description

Over the last thirty years, the field of disability studies has emerged from the political activism of disabled people. In this challenging review of the field, leading disability academic and activist Tom Shakespeare argues that the social model theory has reached a dead end. This new edition is updated throughout, drawing on Shakespeare's most recent thinking, the controversy surrounding the first edition and the World Report on Disability, as well as incorporating a new chapter on disability in a global context.

Publication/Creation

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

Physical description

viii, 280 pages ; 24 cm

Edition

Second edition.

Notes

Updated edition of the author's Disability rights and wrongs.
"First published in 2006"--Title page verso.

Contents

Introduction -- Foundations -- Materialist disability studies -- Cultural disability studies -- Critical realist disability studies -- Labels and badges -- Applications -- Questioning prenatal diagnosis -- Just around the corner : the quest for cure -- Autonomy at the end of life -- Personal assistance as a relationship -- Friendship -- Thinking about disability, sex and love -- Understanding violence against disabled people.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-270) and index.

Languages

Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    NH /SHA
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780415527606
  • 0415527600
  • 9780415527613
  • 0415527619