Disabling Barriers - Enabling Environments

■目次

Introduction 1

PART I: PERSPECTIVES OF DISABILITY AND IMPAIRMENT 5

1 If I had a hammer: the social model in action 7
Mike Oliver
2 Representing disability 13
Vic Finkelstein
3 Disability and impairment 21
Carol Thomas
4 Disability, disability studies and the academy 28
Colin Barnes
5 Whose tragedy? Towards a personal non-tragedy view of disability 34
Sally French and John Swain
6 Dependence, independence and normality 41
Colin Goble
7 Reflections on doing emancipatory disability research 47
Colin Barnes
8 International perspectives on disability 54
John Swain

PART II: IN OUR OWN IMAGE 61

9 Disability and the body 63
Bill Hughes
10 Women and disability 69
Alison Sheldon
11 Men and disability 75
Steve Robertson
12 'Can you see the rainbow?' The roots of denial 81
Sally French
13 Impairment, difference and 'identity' 87
Mairian Scott-Hill
14 Generating debates: why we need a life course approach to disability issues 94
Mark Priestley
15 The changing face of representations of disability in the media 100
Paul Anthony Darke
16 Disability culture: the story so far 106
Sian Vasey
17 'Race', disability and oppression 111
Martin Banton and Gurnam Singh
18 Who is disabled? Exploring the scope of the social model of disability 118
Dan Goodley
19 Disabled people, disability and sexuality 125
Selina Bonnie

PART III: CONTROLLING LIFESTYLES 133

20 Righting the picture: disability and family life 135
Michele Wates
21 Disability and childhood: deconstructing the stereotypes 142
John M. Davis
22 Housing and independent living 149
John Stewart
23 Changing technology 155
Alison Sheldon
24 Communication barriers: building access and identity 161
Carole Pound and Alan Hewitt
25 Controlling inclusion in education: young disabled people's perspectives 169
Sally French and John Swain
26 User-led organisations: facilitating independent living 176
Geoffrey Mercer
27 Leisure and disabled people 183
Liz Carr
28 Disability and ageing 189
Ann MacFarlane
29 Employment barriers and inclusive futures? 195
Alan Roulstone

PART IV: IN CHARGE OF SUPPORT AND HELP 201

30 The crafting of good clients 203
Ken Davis
31 Modernising services? 206
Vic Finkelstein
32 Disabled health and caring professionals: the experiences of visually impaired physiotherapists 212
Sally French
33 Direct payments 219
Frances Hasler
34 Disability, care and controlling services 226
Frances Hasler
35 Counselling and disabled people: help or hindrance? 233
Donna Reeve
36 A critique of professional support and intervention 239
Paul Abberley
37 Treatment at the hands of professionals 245
Peter Beres ford
38 Diagnosis and assessment in the lives of disabled people: creating potentials/limiting possibilities? 251
Maureen Gillman
39 Tragedy strikes again! Why community care still poses a problem for integrated living 258
Mark Priestley
40 The global economy of 'care' 264
Chris Holden

PART V: CREATING A SOCIETY FIT FOR ALL 271

41 Disability and social exclusion in the information society 273
Bob Sapey
42 From universal to inclusive design in the built environment 279
Rob lmrie
43 The Disability Movement: some observations 285
Len Barton
44 Genetics, disability and bioethics 291
Helen Caplan
45 Legislation and human rights 297
Rachel Hurst

Index 303

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