Disability Studies - Sociology Books

New and Published Books

1. A Social History of Disability in the Middle Ages

   Cultural Considerations of Physical Impairment

   By Irina Metzler

   Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

   What was it like to be disabled in the Middle Ages? How did people become disabled? Did welfare support exist? This book discusses social and cultural factors affecting the lives of medieval crippled, deaf, mute and blind people, those nowadays collectively called "disabled." Although the word did...

   Published March 6th 2013 by Routledge
2. Disability in Japan

   By Carolyn Stevens

   Series: Japan Anthropology Workshop Series

   Disability and chronic illness represents a special kind of cultural diversity, the "other" to "normal" able-bodiedness. Most studies of disability consider disability in North American or European contexts; and studies of diversity in Japan consider ethnic and cultural diversity, but not the...

   Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
3. The Disability Studies Reader

   4th Edition

   Edited by Lennard J. Davis

   The Fourth Edition of the Disability Studies Reader breaks new ground by emphasizing the global, transgender, homonational, and posthuman conceptions of disability. Including physical disabilities, but exploring issues around pain, mental disability, and invisible disabilities, this edition...

   Published February 7th 2013 by Routledge
4. Disability and New Media

   By Katie Ellis, Mike Kent

   Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

   Disability and New Media examines how digital design is triggering disability when it could be a solution. Video and animation now play a prominent role in the World Wide Web and new types of protocols have been developed to accommodate this increasing complexity. However, as this has happened, the...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
5. African American Slavery and Disability

   Bodies, Property and Power in the Antebellum South, 1800-1860

   By Dea Boster

   Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

   Disability is often mentioned in discussions of slave health, mistreatment and abuse, but constructs of how "able" and "disabled" bodies influenced the institution of slavery has gone largely overlooked. This volume uncovers a history of disability in African American slavery from the primary...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
6. Life and Death Decisions

   The Quest for Morality and Justice in Human Societies

   By Sheldon Ekland-Olson

   Series: Contemporary Sociological Perspectives

   Issues of Life and Death such as abortion, assisted suicide, capital punishment and others are among the most contentious in many societies. Whose rights are protected? How do these rights and protections change over time and who makes those decisions? Based on the author’s award-winning and hugely...

   Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
7. The Routledge Handbook of the Welfare State

   Edited by Bent Greve

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   ‘The welfare state’ in all its many forms has had a profound role in many countries around the world since at least the Second World War. The Routledge Handbook of the Welfare State explores the classical issues around the welfare state, but also investigates its key concepts, along with how these...

   Published November 22nd 2012 by Routledge
8. The Politics of Age and Disability in Contemporary Spanish Film

   Plus Ultra Pluralism

   By Matthew J. Marr

   Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

   The Politics of Age and Disability in Contemporary Spanish Film examines the onscreen construction of adolescent, elderly, and disabled subjects in Spanish cinema from 1992 to the present. Applying a dual lens of film analysis and theory drawn from the allied fields of youth, age, and disability...

   Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge
9. Olympic Ethics and Philosophy

   Edited by Mike McNamee, Jim Parry

   This book contains an international collection of essays by leading philosophers of sport on the ethics and philosophy of the Olympic Games. The essays consider a range of topics including critical reflections on nationalism and internationalism within the Olympic movement, sexism in...

   Published October 23rd 2012 by Routledge
10. Moving Beyond Boundaries in Disability Studies

    Rights, Spaces and Innovations

    Edited by Michele Moore

    What challenges are posed by changing transnational trends, agendas and movements that affect disabled people’s lives, and what can disabled people, their representative organisations and their governments do to advance the agenda for self-determination and inclusion? This book draws together the...

    Published October 2nd 2012 by Routledge