Studying disability
Subtitle: multiple theories and responses
By: Elizabeth DePoy, Stephen French Gilson.
Contributors: Gilson, Stephen French.
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781412975766
Subjects: Disability studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foundations; title: Looking back : ancient Greece through the 19th century; title: Disability in the 20th and 21st centuries- medical condition, construction or commodity; title: The descriptive element of explanatory legitimacy; title: Explanations introduced; title: Longitudinal explanations; title: Environmental explanations; title: Categorical explanations; title: Systems explanations; title: Contemporary and emerging explanations; title: Legitimacy : what is it?; title: Who is a legitimate category member?; title: Legitimate humanities responses; title: Legitimate social science responses; title: Legitimate professional responses; title: Integrative academic-professional stance through disjuncture theory; title: A social justice model of community legitimacy : creating human-environment juncture.