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Nick Watson (Ed.) - Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies - 9781138787711 - V9781138787711
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Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies

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The Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies takes a multidisciplinary approach to disability and provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of the main issues in the field around the world today. Adopting an international perspective and consisting entirely of newly commissioned chapters arranged thematically, it surveys the state of the discipline, examining emerging and cutting edge areas as well as core areas of contention.

Divided in five sections, this comprehensive handbook covers:

    • different models and approaches to disability
    • how key impairment groups have engaged with disability studies and the writings within the discipline
    • policy and legislation responses to disability studies and ... Read more
    • disability studies and its interaction with other disciplines, such as history, philosophy and science and technology studies
    • disability studies and different life experiences, examining how disability and disability studies intersects with ethnicity, sexuality, gender, childhood and ageing.

      Containing chapters from an international selection of leading scholars, this authoritative handbook is an invaluable reference for all academics, researchers and more advanced students in disability studies and associated disciplines such as sociology, health studies and social work.

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      Product Details

      Publisher
      Taylor & Francis Ltd
      Format
      Paperback
      Publication date
      2014
      Condition
      New
      Number of Pages
      452
      Place of Publication
      London, United Kingdom
      ISBN
      9781138787711
      SKU
      V9781138787711
      Shipping Time
      Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
      Ref
      99-1

      About Nick Watson (Ed.)
      Nick Watson is Professor of Disability Studies and Director of the Strathclyde Centre for Disability Research at the University of Glasgow, UK. Alan Roulstone is Research Professor at Northumbria University, UK. Carol Thomas is Professor of Sociology at the University of Lancaster, UK.

      Reviews for Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies
      ‘The Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies is an outstanding accomplishment, bringing together many thoughtful and well written contributions, from both leaders in the field and emerging scholars, that advance disability theory, illuminate key academic and policy debates, and extend disability studies into a number of important and timely areas, some previously neglected. I cannot imagine anyone in or out of ... Read more

      Goodreads reviews for Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies


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