Disability And Dependency

by Len Barton (Editor)

Overview

One of the disturbing messages of this book is the extent to which disabled people are suffering in society. It looks at the socio-economic issues involved as well as the personal aspects of their lives and offers solutions to the discriminating

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781850006176
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/06/1989
Series:	Disability, Handicap, and Life Chances
Pages:	154
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Barton, Len

Table of Contents

Disability and dependency - a creation of industrial societies, Mike Oliver; human service policies - the rhetoric versus the reality, Wolf Wolfensberger; Michael Lipsky and street level bureaucracy - a neglected perspective, Bob Hudson; disabled people, normality and social work, Paul Abberley; I'm not handicapped - I'm different - normalization, hospital care and mental handicap, Mano Candappa and Robert Burgess; the 6/75 family assessment and evaluation program, Marion Blythman and Frieda Spivack; rehabilitation development in South West Asia - conflicts and potentials, M.Miles; inside we are all equal - a European social policy survey of people who are deaf, Lesley Jones and Gloria Pullen.