Beyond Disability: Towards an Enabling Society (Published in association with The Open University) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803979568 ISBN 13: 9780803979567

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1996

Synopsis

This important text draws together a wealth of experience to present theoretical and practical insights into the way society intervenes in the lives of disabled people, and considers how resources could be used in ways that are more helpful and supportive.

Stressing the social contexts within which disabilities become apparent, the contributors highlight two key points: disabled people have practical difficulties only in the area of life affected by their disability and in other respects are no different from anyone else; and they are handicapped not by the parameters of their disability but by the demands and attitudes of society. The contributors consider the position of people with specific types of disability, explore both sides of the `care′ and `counselling′ equation, and discuss training, legislation and aspects of management and attitudes among professionals.

Beyond Disability has been developed as a Course Reader for the Open University course The Disabling Society (K255).

About this title

About the Author

Gerald Hales is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Educational Technology at The Open University

CONTRIBUTORS

Colin Barnes University of Leeds

Deborah Cooper National Bureau for Students with Disabilities

Marian Corker

Ken Davis Derbyshire Coalition of Disabled People

Vic Finkelstein Open University

Sally French Brunel University

Bernard Leach Manchester Metropolitan University

Dick Leaman Lambeth Accord

Ann Macfarlane Consultant Disability Services

Sue Napolitano

Brenda Smith City University

Ossie Stuart University of York

Sian Vasey, TV Producer and Presenter for ′Does He Take Sugar?′

Collette Welch London Borough of Waltham Forest

Sallie Withers Herefordshire Lifestyles

Ray Woolfe Keele University

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803979568
• ISBN 13: 9780803979567
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Hales Gerald