Disability Research Today International Perspectives [Paperback]

Grouped around four central themes  illness and impairment, disabling processes, care and control, and communication and representations  this collection offers a fresh perspective on disability research, showing how theory and data can be brought together in new and exciting ways.

Disability Research Todaystarts by showing how engaging with issues around illness and impairment is vital to a multidisciplinary understanding of disability as a social process. The second section explores factors that affect disabled people, such as homelessness, violence and unemployment. The third section turns to social care, and how disabled people are prevented from living with independence and dignity. Finally, the last section examines how different imagery and technology impacts our understandings of disability and deafness.

Showcasing empirical work from a range of countries, including Japan, Norway, Italy, Australia, India, the UK, Turkey, Finland and Iceland, this collection shows how disability studies can be simultaneously sophisticated, accessible and policy-relevant. Disability Research Todayis suitable for students and researchers in disability studies, sociology, social policy, social work, nursing and health studies.

1. Introduction  Tom Shakespeare  Part 1: Illness and Impairment  2. Social Experiences of Physical Rehabilitation: The Role of the Family  Dikmen Bezmez and Sibel Yard1mc1  3. Learning from Tojisha Kenkyu: Mental Health 'Patients' Studying Their Difficulties with Their Peers  Kohji Ishihara  4. The Psycho-Social Impact of Impairment: The Case of Motor Neurone Disease  Jo Ferrie and Nick Watson  Part 2: Disabling Processes