TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smart,Julie
TI  - Disability, society, and the individual
SN  - 1416403728
AV  - HV1568 .S63 2009
U1  - 305.90816 22
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - Austin, Tex.
PB  - Pro-ed
KW  - People with disabilities
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Sociology of disability
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction --; Part I; Definitions of Disability --; 1; Defining Disability --; Does Anyone Know What "Normal" Is? --; The Link Between the Academic Discipline of Statistics and Eugenics --; Categorizing Disabilities --; Physical Disabilities --; Intellectual Disabilities --; Cognitive Disabilities --; Psychiatric Disabilities --; Does Everyone Have a Disability of Some Sort? --; There Are More Disabilities Than Ever Before --; Six Reasons for Increasing Disability Rates --; 2; Models of Disability: The Biomedical Model, the Environmental Model --; the Functional Model, and the Sociopolitical Model --; What Are Models of Disability? --; The Biomedical Model of Disability --; The Environmental Model of Disability --; The Functional Model of Disability --; The Sociopolitical Model of Disability --; Models of Disability, American Legislation, and Agencies That --; Serve Persons with Disabilities --; Dichotomy or Continuum? --; Additional Categories of Disabilities --; The Americans with Disabilities Act: Equal Opportunity Under the Law --; The ADA Definition of Disability --; Results of the ADA --; Talking about Disability --; Lab els; That Attempt To Describe All Those Different from the Majority --; Part II; Society and Disability --; 3; Sources of Prejudice and Discrimination, Part --; Societal Prejudices Often Become Self-Identifiers --; Prejudice against People with Disabilities Today in the United States --; The Outcomes of the ADA --; Examining Prejudice and Discrimination Against PWDs --; The Economic Threat --; The Safety Threat --; The Ambiguity of Disability --; The Salience of the Perceived Defining Nature of the Disability --; Spread or Overgeneralization --; Assisted Suicide --; 4; Sources of Prejudice and Discrimination, Part --; Moral Accountability for the Cause of Disability --; Moral Accountability for the Management of the Disability --; The Inferred Emotional Consequence of the Disability --; or Difficult Does Not Mean Tragic --; Society's Emphasis on Health, Fitness, and Beauty --; Fear of Acquiring a Disability or Existential Angst, or --; Three Societal Responses to Disability --; Charity Telethons or "Elephants Running in the Forest" --; Civil Rights for PWDs --; What is Justice? --; 5; The Effects of Prejudice and Discrimination --; Are Disabilities Viewed as Difference or as Deviance? --; Are PWDs "Differently Challenged"? --; Do Disabilities Always Lead to Social Inferiority? --; Handicapism --; The Handicapism of Well-Intentioned People --; The Contact Theory --; Equal Social Status Contact --; Perceptions of the Disability That May Be Associated with Prejudice --; The Degree of Visibility of the Disability --; Other Factors That Influence the Perception of PWDs --; The Drawbacks To Having Disabled Heroes --; Aesthetic Qualities of the Disability --; Impression Management --; Simulation Exercises --; 6; Experiencing Prejudice and Discrimination --; Introduction --; Stereotyping --; Pity --; Role Entrapment --; Lowered Expectations, or "Let's Give Those Poor Disabled People a Break" --; Lack of Privacy --; Hypervisibility and Overobservation --; Solo Status --; Token Status --; Paternalism --; Infantilization --; Viewing PWDs as Objects --; Viewing PWDs as Animals --; Unnecessary Dependence --; Equal Social Status Relationships --; The Media's Portrayal of PWDs --; Crime and Abuse of People with Disabilities --; Second-Class Citizenship (For Which Americans Must --; Assume Collective Responsibility) --; Comparing Handicapism to Racism --; Part III; The Individual and Disability --; 7; The Individual's Response to Disability --; View from the Outside Versus Life on the Inside --; Acceptance of Disability or Response to Disability --; What Is a "Good" Response to a Disability? --; Cognitive Restructuring --; What Is a Poor Response to a Disability? --; Secondary Gains, Malingering, and Psychogenic Pain Disorder --; Problems in Measuring an Individual's Response to a Disability --; The Stage Model of Adaptation to Disability --; The Stages of Response in Disability --; Transcendence --; Advantages of the Stage Theory --; Cautions in Implementing the Stage Theory --; Appendix 7; A: First-Person Narratives of People with Disabilities --; Appendix 7; B: Acceptance of Disability Scale --; 8; The Onset and Diagnosis of the Disability --; Factors That Affect the Impact of the Onset of Disability --; Time of Onset --; Parents of Children with Congenital Disabilities --; Atypical Childhood Experiences --; Hearing Children of Parents Who Are Deaf --; Prelingual Deafness --; Congenital Blindness or Blindness Acquired in Infancy --; Residential Schools --; Acquired Disabilities --; The Developmental Stage of Acquisition --; Type of Onset --; The Impact of a Long Prediagnosis Period --; 9; Other Factors of the Disability --; The Course of the Disability --; The Phases or Stages of the Course of a Disability --; The Three Types of Courses --; Degenerating Episodic Disabilities --; Communication Difficulties --; The Meaning of the Loss of Functioning --; Severity of the Disability --; Quality of Life --; Pain and Trauma of the Disability --; Chronic Pain --; Psychogenic Pain Disorder --; More About Pain --; The Degree of Stigma Directed toward the Disability --; The Degree of Visibility of the Disability --; Degree of Disfigurement of the Disability --; Body Image --; Disfigurements as Social Handicaps --; The Treatment of Individuals with Disfiguring Disabilities --; Treatment --; The Perspective of the Client /Consumer --; What Do PWDs Want from Professional Care Providers? --; Autonomy, Independence, and Control --; The Importance of Social Support --; Conclusion --; Epilogue
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