Hi
with due apologies for self-promotion, list members may be interested in the
following new book, which was published this week.
Disability A Life Course Approach
MARK PRIESTLEY, University of Leeds
published by Polity Press
http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=0745625126
Hardback: 0745625126
Price: £50.00 $59.95
Published: 18 Mar 2003
Paperback 0745625134
Price: £15.99 $24.95
Published: 18 Mar 2003
Description:
Disability: a Life Course Approach provides students and teachers with easy
access to many of the most important current disability issues and debates.
It provides a clearly focused account, and bridges some important gaps in
the existing disability literature by including issues relevant to disabled
people of all ages. If offers a unique approach to understanding disabling
societies in a systematic way, using a novel life course approach.
This book examines how contemporary societies organise and control
generational boundaries and progression through the life course for disabled
people. There are specific chapters on birthrights and eugenics, childhood,
youth transitions, interdependence and adulthood, old age and death and
dying. The emphasis is on contemporary policy and politics (located within a
broader sociological and cultural context) including the claims and
struggles of the disabled people’s movement. The discussion is framed within
a social model approach and draws extensively on contemporary international
debates about the citizenship and human rights of disabled people.
The book functions both as a resource guide and as a tool for learning. The
various chapters include reviews of existing literature and theoretical
debates, alongside specific examples of disabling policies and practices in
different countries. There are also case studies illustrating key issues,
together with relevant discussion and teaching points, and suggestions for
further research and reading.
The book addresses an international readership and will be of particular
interest to students and teachers of disability studies, sociology, human
development, social policy; to professionals and students within
rehabilitation and social work; and to disabled people and lay readers with
an interest in contemporary disability issues and debates.
Available at 30% discount price on Amazon at:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0745625134
Best wishes
Mark Priestley
Centre for Disability Studies
University of Leeds
LEEDS
LS2 9JT
UK
tel: +44 113 343 4417
fax: +44 113 343 4415
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies
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