Rethinking Disability: Principles for Professional and Social Change

Rethinking Disability: Principles for Professional and Social Change
ISBN-10
0534549292
ISBN-13
9780534549299
Series
Rethinking Disability
Category
Disability studies
Pages
182
Language
English
Published
2004
Publisher
Brooks/Cole Publishing Company
Authors
Elizabeth DePoy, Stephen French Gilson

Description

This book provides a theoretical lens through which to view Disability. Rather than taking a medical-diagnostic stance, which has been the traditional perspective, the authors explain disability as category in which membership is based on of judgments about explanations for what people do, experience and how they appear. In Part I, the authors discuss various aspects of the history and current trends, which influence how disability is defined and addressed. In Part II, Explanatory Legitimacy' (EL) theory is explained in detail and applied to an analysis of disability. In Part III, the EL theory is applied to rethinking disability now and in the future.

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