The Social Construction of Intellectual Disability
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 28, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780521005296
Subjects: Social groups & communities; Psychopathology - General; People with mental disabilitie; Social Science; Psychology; Sociology; Social interaction; Social Psychology; Interpersonal Relations; Psychology & Psychiatry / Social Psychology; Handicapped; Group identity; People with mental disabilities
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.