Ableism: The Causes and Consequences of Disability Prejudice

The first comprehensive volume to integrate social-scientific literature on the origins and manifestations of prejudice against disabled people

Ableism, prejudice against disabled people stereotyped as incompetent and dependent, can elicit a range of reactions that include fear, contempt, pity, and inspiration. Current literature-often narrowly focused on a specific aspect of the subject or limited in scope to psychoanalytic tradition-fails to examine the many origins and manifestations of ...