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 …

SUMMARY In this essay, Tom Shakespeare outlines how the social model of disability
differs from the overmedicalized or individualistic accounts of disability that preceded it. The …

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 1989, Canadian philosopher Susan Wendell characterized the way bioethics literature
discusses disability as follows:" Under what conditions is it morally permissible/right to kill/let …

This fully revised and expanded second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Disability
Studies takes a multidisciplinary approach to disability and provides an authoritative and up …

This paper responds to the reviews by Edwards, Holm, Koch, Thomas and Vehmas of
Disability Rights and Wrongs (2006). After summarising the recent history of disability …

What has come to be called critical disability studies is an emergent field of academic
research, teaching, theory building, public scholarship, and something I'll call “educational …

Shelley Tremain teaches in the Philosophy Department at the University of Toronto,
Mississauga. She is the editor of Foucault and the Government of Disability (2005) and the …

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 …

Disabled people and their allies worldwide have organized over the past few decades to
challenge the discrimination and exclusion of disabled people from mainstream society. In …