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chapter 1 Understanding disability -- chapter 2 Disability across time and place -- chapter 3 A life worth living -- chapter 4 Disabling barriers -- chapter 5 Health and social care -- chapter 6 Education for all -- chapter 7 A matter of life and death -- chapter 8 Advocacy and resistance.

"Disability: The Basics is an engaging and accessible introduction to disability which explores the broad historical, social, environmental, economic and legal factors which affect the experiences of those living with an impairment or illness in contemporary society. The book explores key introductory topics including:the diversity of the disability experience;disability rights and advocacy;ways in which disabled people have been treated throughout history and in different parts of the world;the daily realities of living with an impairment or illness;health, education, employment and other services that exist to support and include disabled people;ethical issues at the beginning and end of life. Disability: The Basics aims to provide readers with an understanding of the lived experiences of disabled people and highlight the continuing gaps and barriers in social responses to the challenge of disability. This book is suitable for lay people, students of disability studies as well as students taking a disability module as part of a wider course within social work, health care, sociology, nursing, policy and media studies."--Provided by publisher.

Social experiences of physical rehabilitation : the role of the family / Dikmen Bezmez and Sibel Yardimci -- Learning from Tojisha Kenkyu : mental health patients studying their difficulties with their peers / Kohji Ishihara -- The psycho-social impact of impairment : the case of motor neurone disease / Jo Ferrie and Nick Watson -- Beyond the ICF : Italian network strategies for job placement of persons with disabilities / Fabio Corbisiero -- Sites of oppression : dominant ideologies and women with disabilities in India / Nandini Ghosh -- How to understand violence against disabled people / Halvor Hanisch -- The invisibles : conceptualising the intersectional relationships between dyslexia, social exclusion and homelessness / Stephen Macdonald -- When power says no : bureaucratic governance and disability rights in Iceland / James Rice, Eirikur Smith and Kristin Björnsdóttir -- Mental capacity and the control of sexuality of people with intellectual disabilities in England and Wales / Lucy Series -- My sister wont let me : issues of control over one's own life as experienced by older women with intellectual disabilities / Iva Strnadová -- Social representations and inclusive practices for disabled students in italian higher education : a mixed-method analysis of multiple perspectives / Fabio Ferrucci and Michela Cortini -- The problem of the supercrip : representation and misrepresentation of disability / Jan Grue -- User, client or consumer? Construction of roles in video interpreting services / Hilde Haualand -- Reading other minds : ethical considerations on the representation of intellectual disability in fiction / Howard Sklar

Grouped around four central themes - illness and impairment, disabling processes, care and control, and communication and representations - this collection offers a fresh perspective on disability research, showing how theory and data can be brought together in new and exciting ways. Disability Research Today starts by showing how engaging with issues around illness and impairment is vital to a multidisciplinary understanding of disability as a social process. The second section explores factors that affect disabled people, such as homelessness, violence and unemployment. The third section turn.

Over the last forty years, the field of disability studies has emerged from the political activism of disabled people. In this challenging review of the field, leading disability academic and activist Tom Shakespeare argues that disability research needs a firmer conceptual and empirical footing. This new edition is updated throughout, reflecting Shakespeare's most recent thinking, drawing on current research, and responding to controversies surrounding the first edition and the World Report on Disability, as well as incorporating new chapters on cultural disability studies, personal assistance, sexuality, and violence. Using a critical realist approach, Disability Rights and Wrongs Revisited promotes a pluralist, engaged and nuanced approach to disability. Key topics discussed include: dichotomies - going beyond dangerous polarizations such as medical model versus social model to achieve a complex, multi-factorial account of disability identity - the drawbacks of the disability movement's emphasis on identity politics bioethics - choices at the beginning and end of life and in the field of genetic and stem cell therapies relationships - feminist and virtue ethics approaches to questions of intimacy, assistance and friendship. This stimulating and accessible book challenges disability studies orthodoxy, promoting a new conceptualization of disability and fresh research agenda. It is an invaluable resource for researchers and students in disability studies and sociology, as well as professionals, policy makers and activists.

Provides a response to Johnson and Nettle's paper, discussing justifications for the UK welfare state, and associated perceptions of disability and fairness. Rather than the 'stick' of sanctions and conditionality, more investment is required in return to work efforts.

A discussion of the connection between activism and academia in bioethics, highlighting the author's own trajectory, exploring the extent to which academics have an obliation to be 'judges' rather than 'barristers' (as explored by Jonathan Haidt) and asking questions about the relationship of disability to positions in bioethics.