Disability / Colin Barnes and Geoff Mercer.

By:

Barnes, Colin, 1946-

Contributor(s):

Mercer, G. (Geoffrey)

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Key conceptsPublication details: Oxford : Polity, 2002.Description: 200 p. ; 23 cmISBN:

9780745625096 (pbk.) :
9780745625089 (hbk.) :
0745625088

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

362.4 BAR
9780745625096

LOC classification:

HV1568

Contents:

1.Disability: a choice of models -- 2.Disabling societies: domination and opression -- 3.Social oppression: patterns and social divisions -- 4.Impairment, disability and the body -- 5.Culture, media and representation -- 6.The politics of disability: breaking down -- 7.Disability and development: global perspectives.

Summary: A concise and accessible introduction to current social science debates on disability. It chronicles how disabled people and their organizations have challenged the conventional, individualistic and medical explanations for disabled people's individual and collective disadvantage.

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Title notes ( 3 )

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Short Loan	TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending	362.4 BAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		205302

Includes bibliographical references (p.[150]-174) and index.

A concise and accessible introduction to current social science debates on disability. It chronicles how disabled people and their organizations have challenged the conventional, individualistic and medical explanations for disabled people's individual and collective disadvantage.