Deaf And Disabled, Or Deafness Disables? (Disability, Human Rights, and Society)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Open University Press
Published: December 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9780335196999
Subjects: Disability: social aspects; Human rights; Social Science; Consumer Health; Politics/International Relations; Physical Education; Physical Impairments; Education / Physical Education; Human Services; Civil rights; Deaf; Discrimination against people; Discrimination against people with disabilities; Social conditions; Sociology of disability
First sentence: In this and the following two chapters, I want to set out my own analysis of the structures and processes through which deaf and disabled people have become divided, and to suggest an alternative framework for thinking which adds to and develops the current frameworks and identifies our common ground.