Disability and technology: an interdisciplinary and international approach

Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- 1: An Introduction and Overview -- The Structure of the Book -- Part I: Disability and Technology in Context -- Part II: Understanding Disability, Understanding Technology -- References -- Part I Disability and Technology in Context -- 2: Between Bodies, Artefacts and Theories: Theorising Disability, Theorising Technology -- Is There a Medical 'Model' of Disability? -- Social Approaches to Disability -- Summing Up Social Approaches to Disability -- Theorising Technology -- Dilute Determinism? -- Affordances and Technology Theory

This book brings together formally disparate literatures and debates on disability and technology in a way that captures the complex interplay between the two. Drawing on disability studies, technology studies and clinical studies, the book argues that interdisciplinary insights together provide a more nuanced and less stylized picture of the benefits and barriers in disability and technology. Drawing on a breadth of empirical studies from across the globe, a picture emerges of the complex and multi-directional interplay of technology and disability. Technology is neither inherently enabling or disabling but fundamentally shaped by the social dynamics that shape their design, use and impact