Disability luminary Mike Oliver is joined by Colin Barnes in this agenda-setting response to a
capitalist society faced with globalisation, financial instability and lower public expenditure …

Disabled people experience profound discrimination and social disadvantage, but this has
not generated substantial interest among mainstream sociologists. Barnes, Mercer and …

Now going into its seventh edition, Neil Thompson's Anti-Discriminatory Practice has been
providing a trusted introduction to the challenges of promoting social justice and equality for …

This trusted textbook for both students and practitioners has sold over 75,000 copies across
its four previous editions. This comprehensive text is divided into three easily navigable …

I define disenfranchised grief as grief that results when a person experiences a significant
loss and the resultant grief is not openly acknowledged, socially validated, or publicly …

Much of the literature on mothering a child with a disability focuses on grief in the context of
diagnosis, with a paucity of longitudinal studies focusing on ongoing grief as the child moves …

Grief is regarded as a critical life event. Unresolved grief issues can interfere with quality of
life and can result in emotional, behavioral, physical and cognitive symptoms, and if …

The qualitative stage of this study took place between 2001 and 2003. The research team
set a target to interview 50 wheelchair users living in the northwest region. Unfortunately this …

Wheelchair users are often perceived as someone ill and who will be limited in performing
daily activities. This paradigm can be changed if instead to focus on limits, we start to think …

Disability is a multi-faceted discursive construct shaped by diverse motivations and
perspectives. To understand this complex construct, this thesis examines the aspects of …