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• Author(s): Tom Shakespeare • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Social WorkDisability: The Basics is an engaging and accessible introduction to disability which explores the broad historical, social, environ...

• Author(s): Tom Shakespeare • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Social WorkDisability: The Basics is an engaging and accessible introduction to disability which explores the broad historical, social, environ...

• Author(s): Rebecca Mallett • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareDisability Studies is an area of study which examines social, political, cultural, and economic fa...

• Author(s): Lennard J. Davis • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralWhile there are many introductions to disability and disability studies, most presume an advanced academic knowledge of a r...

• Author(s): Lennard J. Davis • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralWhile there are many introductions to disability and disability studies, most presume an advanced academic knowledge of a r...

• Author(s): Rebecca Mallett • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareDisability Studies is an area of study which examines social, political, cultural, and economic fa...

• Author(s): Brian Watermeyer • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: RoutledgeIn recent years, disability studies has been driven by a model of disability which focuses on the social and economic oppression of disabled people. Alt...

• Author(s): Gareth M. Thomas • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: DisabilityMany critical analyses of disability address important 'macro' concerns, but are often far removed from an interactional and micro-l...

• Author(s): Tom Shakespeare • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: DisabilityGrouped around four central themes - illness and impairment, disabling processes, care and control, and communication and representat...

• Author(s): Brian Watermeyer • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralIn recent years, disability studies has been driven by a model of disability which focuses on the social and economic oppression of dis...

• Author(s): Len Barton • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThe study of disability has traditionally been influenced mainly by medical and psychological models. The aim of this new text, D...

• Author(s): Roland Meinert • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: RoutledgeAlthough the field of disability services and societal understanding of disability issues have advanced in recent decades there remain controversial subje...

• Author(s): Hans | Asha • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge India • Subject: Sociology and AnthropologyThis book explores the gendered experience of disability, focusing on the unique challenges faced by women with d...

• Author(s): Harriet Cooper • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Social WorkThis book examines the relationship between contemporary cultural representations of disabled children on the one hand, and disabilit...

• Author(s): Roland Meinert • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralAlthough the field of disability services and societal understanding of disability issues have advanced in recent decades the...

• Author(s): Tom Shakespeare • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: DisabilityGrouped around four central themes - illness and impairment, disabling processes, care and control, and communication and representat...

• Author(s): Michele Moore • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralThis book is recommended reading for students, researchers and activists interested in Disability Studies and is directly relevant to poli...

• Author(s): Chalotte Glintborg • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: DisabilityThis book investigates how being diagnosed with various disabilities impacts on identity. Once diagnosed with a disability, there ...

• Author(s): Karen Soldatic • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareDisability is of central concern to the developing world but has largely been under-represented in ...

• Author(s): Barbara Fawcett • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: DisabilityFeminist Perspectives on Disability provides a unique introduction to the key debates in relation to both feminism and disability. Th...

• Author(s): Barbara Boroson • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Special Education - GeneralThis insightful guide shows professionals how to collaborate with parents and guardians of children with disabilitie...

• Author(s): Julie Smart • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Psychotherapy - CounselingThis introductory text defines and describes disability, while providing concrete practice guidelines and recommendations...

• Author(s): John Vorhaus • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareGiving Voice to Profound Disability is devoted to exploring the lives of people with profound and mul...

• Author(s): Ronald J. Berger • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareThis groundbreaking text makes an intervention on behalf of disability studies into the broad fie...

• Author(s): Harriet Cooper • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Social WorkThis book examines the relationship between contemporary cultural representations of disabled children on the one hand, and disabilit...

• Author(s): David Bolt • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Special Education - GeneralWhilst legislation may have progressed internationally and nationally for disabled people, barriers continue to exist, of...

• Author(s): John Vorhaus • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareGiving Voice to Profound Disability is devoted to exploring the lives of people with profound and mul...

• Author(s): Michael S. Jeffress • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: DisabilityResearch has long substantiated the fact that living with a disability creates significant and complex challenges to identity neg...

• Author(s): Michael S. Jeffress • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: DisabilityResearch has long substantiated the fact that living with a disability creates significant and complex challenges to identity neg...

• Author(s): David Mitchell • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: DisabilityPeople with disabilities are among the most adversely affected during conflict situations or when natural disasters strike. They exper...

• Author(s): Licia Carlson • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Social WorkThis ground-breaking volume considers what it means to make claims of disability membership in view of the robust Disability Rights mo...

• Author(s): Jill Porter • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Special Education - GeneralUnderstanding and Responding to the Experiences of Disability informs readers about current understandings of disability...

• Author(s): David Mitchell • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: DisabilityPeople with disabilities are among the most adversely affected during conflict situations or when natural disasters strike. They exper...

• Author(s): Renu Addlakha • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge Chapman & Hall • BISAC: DisabilitySince the 1970s, the international disability rights movement, the United Nations and national governments across th...

• Author(s): Vivek Singh • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge Chapman & Hall • BISAC: GeneralThis book explores the concept of disability through a social, political, cultural, religious, and economics lens. It cha...

• Author(s): Someshwar Sati • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge Chapman & Hall • BISAC: Modern - 21st CenturyThis volume explores how disability is seen, written about, read and understood through literature and t...