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Disability as a fluid state /

Disability is often described in a way that suggests that it is most often a permanent state. Many concepts and models of disability suggest this. Even when it is described as being socially constructed, the implication is that an impairment leads to a permanent status of disabled within that social...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Barnartt, Sharon N.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bingley : Emerald, 2010.
Colección:Research in social science and disability ; v. 5.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Disability as a fluid state : introduction / Sharon N. Barnartt
  • 'Feeling normal' and 'feeling disabled' / Mary Jo Deegan
  • Out of a coma and into a wheelchair : social and physical accessibility and the construction of disabled identity / Jay Chaskes
  • At the interstices of classification : notes on the category of disability in sub-Saharan Africa / Patrick J. Devlieger
  • A relational approach to the development of civil rights for people with intellectual disabilities / Allison C. Carey
  • From 'survival of the fittest' to 'fitness for all' to 'who defines fitness anyway?' : 100 years of (U.S.) sociological theory on disability / Corinne Kirchner
  • Regarding disability : perceptions of protection under the Americans with disabilities act / Pepper K. Mueller, Jeffrey A. Houser, Mark D. Riddle
  • 'Sit home and collect the check' : race, class, and the social construction of disability identity / Deborah L. Little
  • Activism, models, identities, and opportunities : a preliminary test of a typology of disability orientations / Rosalyn Benjamin Darling, D. Alex Heckert
  • Deaf women's work experiences : negotiating gender, ability, and theories of resistance / Cheryl Najarian Souza
  • Why does growth hurt? The dual role of normalization and stigmatization in the experience of growth hormone treatment / Leslie Rott
  • Disproportionality : a sociological perspective on the identification by schools of students with learning disabilities / Dara Shifrer, Chandra Muller, Rebecca Callahan.