Controversial Issues In A Disabling Society

by John Swain, Colin Cameron, Sally French

Overview

Controversial Issues in a Disabling Society has been written specifically to raise questions and stimulate debate. It has been designed for use with students in group discussion, and to support in-depth study on a variety of professional courses. It covers a wide range of specific, substantive issues within Disability Studies in a series of succinct chapters. Each chapter sets a question for debate, places the key issues in context and presents a particular argument. This is an accessible and engaging book which challenges dominant positions and ideologies from a social model viewpoint of disability.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780335209040
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill Companies,Inc.
Publication date:	03/01/2003
Series:	Disability, Human Rights and Society Ser.
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.59(d)

About the Author

Johh Swain is Reader in Disability Studies and Principal Lecturer in Research, in the Faculty of Health, Social Work and Education at the University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne.

Sally French is Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at King Alfred's College of Higher Education, London.

Colin Cameron is a freelance disability equality trainer and consultant, providing training and teaching for organizations in south east Scotland, including Lothian Centre for Integrated Living, the City of Edinburgh Social Work Department and the University of Edinburgh.

Table of Contents

Series editor's preface Introduction enabling questions

Part one: Foundations

What's in a name?
Whose model?
What is Disability Studies?

Part two: Values and ideologies

Controlling life?
A dividing society?
Celebrating difference?
What's so good about independence?
Will you put your hand in your pocket?
Whose body?

Part three: Policy, provision and practice

Policy is inclusion better than integration?
Provision who needs special needs?
Practice are professionals parasites?
Policy, provision and practice care or control?
Politics where does change come from?
Conclusion enabling or disabling globalisation?
Bibliography Index.