The Social Construction of Intellectual Disability
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 5, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780521809009
Subjects: Psychology; Social groups & communities; Psychopathology - General; Interpersonal Relations; Social Psychology; Psychology & Psychiatry / Social Psychology; General
First sentence: Intellectual disability is constructed in both 'official' discourses and everyday commonsense as an irretrievable 'disorder' of competence afflicting individual subjects, requiring professional diagnosis, treatment and management.