ROUTLEDGE DISABILITY RIGHTS AND WRONGS REVISITED 2ND EDITION 2014 RETAIL EBOOK-kE

TITLE: DISABILITY RIGHTS AND WRONGS REVISITED, 2ND EDITION

PUBLISHER: ROUTLEDGE LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

LINK: http://is.gd/kuo6kw RELEASE TYPE: RETAIL

FORMAT: PDF RELEASE DATE: 2015.02.26

ISBN: 9780415527606 STORE DATE: 2014

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AUTHOR: TOM SHAKESPEARE



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Over the last forty years, the field of disability studies has

emerged from the political activism of disabled people. In this

challenging review of the field, leading disability academic and

activist Tom Shakespeare argues that disability research needs a

firmer conceptual and empirical footing. This new edition is

updated throughout, reflecting Shakespeare's most recent

thinking, drawing on current research, and responding to

controversies surrounding the first edition and the World Report

on Disability, as well as incorporating new chapters on cultural

disability studies, personal assistance, sexuality, and violence

Using a critical realist approach, Disability Rights and Wrongs

Revisited promotes a pluralist, engaged and nuanced approach to

disability. Key topics discussed include: * dichotomies

going beyond dangerous polarizations such as medical model versus

social model to achieve a complex, multi-factorial account of

disability * identity - the drawbacks of the disability

movement's emphasis on identity politics * bioethics

choices at the beginning and end of life and in the field of

genetic and stem cell therapies * relationships - feminist

and virtue ethics approaches to questions of intimacy, assistance

and friendship. This stimulating and accessible book

challenges disability studies orthodoxy, promoting a new

conceptualization of disability and fresh research agenda. It is

an invaluable resource for researchers and students in disability

studies and sociology, as well as professionals, policy makers

and activists