Disability is increasingly being recognised as a universal human condition with enormous
social and economic consequences. The World Health Organization and The World Bank …

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 …

The 2015 Special Issue of Disability & Society brings together timely discussion of how
changing sociopolitical and cultural relations are redefining disability. Use of the disabled …

The term 'disability'is complex and elusive as individuals and cultures often have different
understandings of disability (Goodley, 2016). As noted by Oliver (1986), if disability is …

Disability studies scholars and disability rights activists have long criticized the dominant
medical model of disability. In this model, disability is conceptualized as an individual deficit …

Traditional accounts of disability have focused on deficits of body or mind. Disabled people
have been defined in terms of their impairments. In different historical and cultural contexts …

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 …

The emergence of two key updated texts in 2009/10 aiming to understand disability warrants
a dual book review given that both books are rooted in a social model of disability, are …

A full understanding of disability recognizes that it has a powerful human rights dimension
and is often associated with social exclusion, and increased exposure and vulnerability to …

This edited collection presents13chapters addressing a range of moral and philosophical
debates concerning disability. As such, it adds to a rapidly expanding body of knowledge …