Over the last forty years, the field of disability studies has emerged from the political activism of disabled people. In this challenging review of the field, leading disability academic and activist Tom Shakespeare argues that disability research needs a firmer conceptual and empirical footing.
This new edition is updated throughout, reflecting Shakespeare''s most recent thinking, drawing on current research, and responding to controversies surrounding the first edition and the World Report on Disability, as well as incorporating new chapters on cultural disability studies, personal assistance, sexuality, and violence. Using a critical realist approach, Disability Rights and WrongsRevisited promotes a pluralist, engaged and nuanced approach to disability. Key topics discussed include:
- dichotomies - going beyond dangerous polarizations such as medical model versus social model to achieve a complex, multi-factorial account o
