Understanding Disability

Review of the first edition: '...a valuable contribution to the debates about our understanding of disability and the position of disabled people in society.' -- Gerry Zarb, Equalities and Human Rights Commission, UK In this absorbing text by a leading writer and respected activist, theory, policy, historical background and personal experience are combined to give readers a rich and illuminating picture of the key issues raised by disability. In the author's uniquely clear and lively narrative style, the book explores: - the practical and political challenges that disablement presents - theoretical understandings of disability - disability law and the realities of policy implementation - key points of contention for the disability movement. This long-awaited new edition of a best-selling text includes new stories from the author's experience, as well as sharply framed debate about the development of policy over the last decade and a half. Its expansive coverage includes discussion of welfare, rehabilitation, special education and normalization. This book is core reading for students of social work, nursing, health and applied social science taking modules in disability studies. Michael Oliver was the first Professor of Disability Studies in the United Kingdom and is Emeritus Professor of Disability Studies at the University of Greenwich, UK. He is the author of the path-breaking The Politics of Disablement and Social Work with Disabled People (in its third edition, co-authored with Bob Sapey).

ISBN 0230220282   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780230220287 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 276 Publisher Palgrave Macmillan   Published in Basingstoke Imprint Palgrave Macmillan   Previous ISBN 9780333599167 Format Paperback   Height (mm) 216 Publication date 26 Aug 2009   Width (mm) 138 DEWEY 362.4   Spine width (mm) 13 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Tertiary education Pages 216

		List of Figures and Tables
Sect. 1		Experiencing and Challenging a Disabling World
		Introduction		3
1		From Personal Struggle to Political Understanding and Back Again		13
2		Mobility Impairment in a Social Context		27
3		The Social Model: History, Critique and Response		41
4		Unmet Promises of Disability Law and Policy by Michael Oliver and Beth Omansky		58
5		Special Education into the Twenty-first Century		70
Sect. 2		Theorizing and Changing a Disabling World
6		Disability and Normalization: A Critique		87
7		The Relevance of Emancipatory Research for Policy Development		106
8		Disabling or Enabling Welfare: What Next for Disabled People? by Michael Oliver and Colin Barnes		119
9		Disability Politics and the Disabled People's Movement in Britain by Michael Oliver and Vic Finkelstein		133
10		Disablement into the Twenty-first Century		154
11		Personalizing the Political and Politicizing the Personal		171
		Bibliography		185
		Index		193

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