Disability on equal terms
By: edited by John Swain and Sally French
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781849206440
Subjects: Services for; People with disabilities; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Social work with people with disabilities; People with Disabilities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-205) and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements for Disability on Equal Terms; Introduction; Section I The Tragedy View of Impairment and Disability; 1 There but for Fortune; 2 Disability, Genetics and Eugenics; 3 Disabled in Images and Language; 4 Institutional Abuse; 5 The Narratives of Disabled Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse; Section II From A Different Viewpoint; 6 Affirming Identity; 7 Choices, Rights and Cabaret: Disability Arts and Collective Identity; 8 The Art of Affirming Identity; 9 An Exploration of Quality of Life of Adults with Haemophilia; 10 Disabled People's Testimonies.