Understanding Disability: From Theory to Practice

by Michael Oliver (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2009

  $41.94

  In this absorbing text by a leading writer and respected activist, theory, policy, historical background and personal experience are combined to give readers a rich and illuminating picture of the key issues raised by disability.
  
  In the author's uniquely clear and lively narrative style, the book explores:

  • the practical and political challenges that disablement presents
    
  • theoretical understandings of disability
    
  • disability law and the realities of policy implementation
    
  • key points of contention for the disability movement

  This long-awaited new edition of a best-selling text includes new stories from the author's experience, as well as sharply framed debate about
  the development of policy over the last decade and a half. Its expansive coverage includes discussion of welfare, rehabilitation, special education and normalization.
  
  This book is core reading for students of social work, nursing, health and applied social science taking modules in disability studies. Michael Oliver was the first Professor of Disability Studies in the United Kingdom and is Emeritus Professor of Disability Studies at the University of Greenwich, UK. He is the author of the path-breaking The Politics of Disablement and Social Work with Disabled People (in its third edition, co-authored with Bob Sapey).

• Used

  Paperback
  1995

  $3.39

  Mike Oliver's work has had an enormous influence on our understanding of disablement in society...The book should prove useful and enlightening to disabled and non-disabled people alike...written in the clear, concise and honest style characteristic of Mike Oliver's work...it makes a valuable contribution to the debates about our understanding of disability and the position of disabled people in society.' Gerry Zarb, Policy Studies;Understanding Disability develops some of the main themes and issues surrounding disability that have arisen in the last twenty years, offering both a personal journey of exploration and understanding and an attempt to take further our theoretical understanding of disability.