Disability rights and wrongs / Tom Shakespeare.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Routledge, 2006Description: viii, 232 pISBN:- 041534719X (pbk.)
- 0415347181 (hardback)
- 305.9/08 22
- HV1568.2 .S53 2006
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305.908 BUS The man with no arms & other stories / | 305.908 DIS Disability discourse / | 305.908 MOV Moving beyond boundaries in disability studies : rights, spaces and innovations / | 305.908 SHA Disability rights and wrongs / | 305.908 SIE Disability theory / | 305.908 SIE Disability theory / | 305.908092 HIN Not a leg to stand on / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction -- 2. The family of social approaches -- 3. Critiquing the social model -- 4. Disability : a complex interaction -- 5. Labels and badges : the politics of disability identity -- 6. Questioning prenatal diagnosis -- 7. Just around the corner : the quest for cure -- 8. Autonomy at the end of life -- 9. Care, support and assistance -- 10. Disability rights and the future of charity -- 11. Love, friendship, intimacy -- 12. The role of non-disabled people in the world of disability -- 13. Concluding thoughts.
"Over the past thirty years, the field of disability studies has emerged from the political activism of disabled people. In this challenging re-evaluation, leading disability academic and activist Tom Shakespeare now argues that social model theory has reached a dead end." "Drawing on a critical realist perspective, Shakespeare promotes a pluralist, engaged and nuanced approach to disability. Rather than rejecting research in medical sociology, bioethics and social care, disability studies needs to re-engage with the fundamental questions of what disability is, and how the lives of disabled people can be improved. Topics discussed include: dichotomies - the dangerous polarisations of medical model versus social model, impairment versus disability and disabled people versus non-disabled people; identity - the drawbacks of the disability movement's emphasis on identity politics; bioethics in disability - choices at the beginning and end of life, and in the field of genetic and stem cell therapies; and, care and social relationships - questions of intimacy, friendship and the role of non-disabled people." "This stimulating and accessible book challenges British disability studies orthodoxies, and promotes a fresh research agenda. It will be required reading for researchers and students in disability studies, medical sociology and social care, and will have applications for professionals, policy-makers and activists."--BOOK JACKET.
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