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Disability: Major Themes in Health and Social Welfare book cover

1st Edition

Disability Major Themes in Health and Social Welfare

Edited By Nick Watson
1688 Pages
by Routledge

Disability Studies is a relatively new area of academic thought, emerging in its current form in the early 1990s. It is, by its nature, broad ranging and has seen a rapid expanse in scholarly research. It is an international development or movement, with active organizations of academics in Britain, the United States, Canada, the Nordic countries, and in Australasia. This new title in the... Read more

Volume I  Part 1: Emergence of the Social Barriers Approach  Part 2: The Social Barriers Approach and Social Models of Disability  Volume II  Part 3: Researching Disability  Part 4: Critiques of the Social Model  Volume III  Part 5: Disability Studies in the US: The Cultural Turn  Part 6: Independent Living  Part 7: Living with Disability  Volume IV  Part 8: The History of Disability  Part 9: Disability and Bioethics  Part 10: Anti-Discrimination Legislation

Biography

Nick Watson is Professor of Disability Studies and Director of the Strathclyde Centre for Disability Research located in the Department for Sociology, Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow, UK. He has written widely on a range of disability issues including: ‘special’ education, disability and social policy, social and health services, science and technology studies, as well as more theoretical work on models and approaches to disability.

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