Routledge handbook of disability studies
This fully revised and expanded second edition of 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 arra...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Routledge
2020, 2020
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| Edition: | Second edition |
| Series: | Routledge international handbooks
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| Collection: | National Center for Biotechnology Information - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | This fully revised and expanded second edition of 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 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 parts, 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 to disability activism. Disability studies and its interaction with other disciplines, such as history, philosophy, sport, 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. Containing15 revised chapters and12 new 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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| Physical Description: | xviii, 543 pages illustrations |
| ISBN: | 0429774095 9781136502163 9780429430817 9780203144114 9780429774096 9780429774089 1138365300 0429774109 0203144112 9780429774102 9781138365308 0429774087 0429430817 1136502165 |