Theorising disability lies at the heart of many recent social scientific engagements with the
body, subjectivity, culture and society. Disability studies have developed across, through …

This comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection, examines disability from a theoretical
perspective, challenging views of disability that dominate mainstream thinking. Throughout …

The Disability Press aims to provide an alternative outlet for work in the field of disability
studies. The Disability Press draws inspiration from the work of all those countless disabled …

Disability Studies is an area of study which examines social, political, cultural, and economic
factors that define'disability'and establish personal and collective responses to difference …

This book is about philosophers encountering disability and disability scholars from various
disciplines encountering philosophy. The aim of this collection is quite straightforward: to …

This year marks exactly 30 years since I published a book introducing the social model of
disability onto an unsuspecting world and yet, despite the impact this model has had, all we …

Disability is a thorny and muddled concept–especially in the field of disability studies–and
social accounts contest with more traditional biologically based approaches in highly …

In this section, we will explore in more detail the dominant, individual, model of disability,
and then contrast it with a social model of disability that was originally advanced by a small …

This chapter focuses on the ontology of disability, ethics and the moral significance of
disability and, finally, political philosophy and its implications for disabled people's social …

This chapter examines the origins of the social model. It addresses the various debates that
have emerged since the late 1990s and argue that, without the social model of disability …