Handbook of Disability Studies

includes index and biblioraphy

1. The shaping of Disability studies as a Field An institutional history of Disability ....11 Counting disability ......69 Disability definitions, models, classification schemes and applications .......97 Theorizing disability.......123 Methodoligical paradigms that shape disability research .........145 Disability: An interactive person-environment social creation ...171 Representation and its discountents ........195 Philosophical issues in the difinition and social response to disability ........219 Disability and the sociology of the body .......252 Intellectual disabilities ......267 2. Experienceing disability Divided understandings..........351 Mapping the family ..........373 Disability and community ........396 Welfare states and disabled people ........412 Advocacy and political action ..........430 Advocacy and political action ............430 Health care professionals and their attitudes toward decisions affecting disabled people .............450 3. Disability in Context Disabilty culture: Assimilation or inclusion..........515 Identity politics, disability, and culture ........535 Making the difference................546 Disability human rights, law, and policy ...........565 The political economy of the disability marketplace............585 Disability and health policy: the role of markets in the delivery of health serices .......610 Disability benefit programs ...........633 A disability studies perspective on employment issues and policies for disabled people ........642 Science and technology policy : Is disability a missing factor ..............663 Disability, education, and inclusion ...............693