Rethinking Disability Bodies, Senses, and Things [Hardcover]

This text is a critical and empirically-based introduction to disability studies. It offers a comprehensive, book-length analysis of disability through the lens of Science and Technology Studies (STS), and presents a practice-oriented discussion of how bodies, senses and things are linked in everyday life and configure enabling and disabling scenarios. Relevant to a broad spectrum of medical practitioners and practicing social service workers, the book will also be essential reading in the fields of disability studies, sociology of the body/senses, medical sociology and STS.

Introduction: Rethinking Disability: Revisiting the Social  Part 1: The Social in Question: Rethinking Modern Di/visions  1. The Social and the Religion of Modernity  2. Othering Blindness in the Light of Vision and Di/vision  Part 2: In Medias Res  3. A Dis/ability Manifesto  Part 3: Dis/abling Practices  4. Dis/abling Spaces of Calculation  5. Time-Spaces of In/dependence and Dis/ability  6. From Exclusive Perspectives to Inclusive Differences  7. Concluding Remarks

Michael Schillmeier is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich.