Moving away from clinical, medical or therapeutic perspectives on disability, this book
explores disability in India as a social, cultural and political phenomenon, arguing that …

There are increasingly strident calls from many sectors of society for the tourism industry, the
world's largest industry, to adopt a more ethical approach to the way it does business. In …

In Disability Studies the question of ontology is establishing itself as a live issue. Whilst there
are many arguments and tendencies emerging from this literature, this paper identifies and …

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 …

scullion pa (2010) Models of disability: their influence in nursing and potential role in
challenging discrimination. Journal of Advanced Nursing66 (3), 697–707. Abstract Aim. This …

Briefly put, the medical model has been commonly regarded by the DRM as an inaccurate
interpretation of disability forming the basis of oppressive and exploitative relationships …

Covering the period from Antiquity to Early Modernity, A Historical Sociology of Disability
argues that disabled people have been treated in Western society as good to mistreat and …

Background Much research has been devoted to the emotional burdens of having a child
with intellectual disability (ID), but very little of this has focused on the burdens imposed by …

We conducted an exploratory content analysis of disability research in 5 major counseling
psychology journals between 1990 and 2010. The goal was to review the counseling …

This article analyses and challenges the categories of dependency and independence as
they feature in discourses on care for older people in two countries, Austria and the UK …