Disability Controversial Debates and Psychosocial Perspectives

Name: Disability Controversial Debates and Psychosocial Perspectives
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ISBN: 9780415162036

ISBN-10: 0415162033

ISBN-13: 9780415162036

Edition: 1999

Authors: Deborah Marks

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Examining current theories and practices relating to disability in 1999, the focus of this work is not disabled people as objects of study, but rather an analysis of disability as it has been historically and culturally constructed.

Book details

List price: $56.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 8/26/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 236
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgements


Introduction



Interdisciplinary studies, fragmented identities and psychic investments



Valuing lives



Medicine and its allied professions



The social construction of disability



Dynamics of care and control: meeting social and psychic needs



Causes, complexity and process of categorising 'impairment'



Does language disable people?



Investments in images


Closing comments: interdisciplinary connections, action and identity


Notes


Bibliography


Index