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Rethinking Disability Theory and Practice : Challenging Essentialism / edited by K. Lesnik-Oberstein.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social policy.
- Social medicine.
- Critical psychology.
- Social structure.
- Equality.
- Sociology.
- Philosophy of mind.
- Self.
- Social Policy.
- Medical Sociology.
- Critical Psychology.
- Social Structure.
- Philosophy of the Self.
- Local Subjects:
- Social Policy.
- Medical Sociology.
- Critical Psychology.
- Social Structure.
- Sociology.
- Philosophy of the Self.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (X, 197 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2015.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Drawing from work in a wide range of fields, this book presents novel approaches to key debates in thinking about and defining disability. Differing from other works in Critical Disability Studies, it crucially demonstrates the consequences of radically rethinking the roles of language and perspective in constructing identities.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note:
- 1. Introduction: Challenging Essentialism; Kari;n Lesnik-Oberstein2. The Case of Pre-Natal Diagnosis; Kari;n Lesnik-Oberstein3. Disability and Animal Studies; Sue Walsh4. The Construction of Hirsutism; Louise Tondeur5. Reading Autism; Helen Santa Maria6. De-colonising Deaf Education; Hannah Anglin-Jaffe7. ADHD Mythology; Simon Bailey8. Queer Regenerative Work?; Ute Kalender9. The Madness of Interpretation; Catrin Edwards10. Seeing Vision; YuKuan Chen11. Constructions of the Disabled Subject; Neil Cocks.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781349687688
- 1349687685
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