Having gone through 30 years of development, the new edition of this highly-regarded
classic is the most trusted companion for understanding and promoting the potential for …

Background: The social model of disability has, on occasion, created confusion and
contention among those working in the field of aphasia. Some have treated it as an …

This article provides a critical evaluation of recent developments in government policy for
disabled people in Britain. A brief outline of the re-definition of disability as social oppression …

The focus of this chapter is user involvement in research and its relationship with health and
social care policy and practice. This means that while the chapter is centrally concerned with …

Direct payments have brought new opportunities for self-determination and independent
living to disabled people in the UK, featuring prominently in government strategy and the …

In this brief paper, I am going to revisit, to some degree, something I wrote over ten years
ago (Barton 1993). This will involve drawing on more recent debates and ideas within …

This chapter aims to put participation in social policy in an ideological, historical and
theoretical context. To do this, the chapter will identify the two dominant modern political …

Within the context of modernization, there has been a trend towards 'cash-for-care'schemes
designed to bring choice and control closer to the service user. In England, Individual …

This paper provides a social model of disability inspired analysis of the philosophy of
independent living and its implications for policy developments for disabled people in the …

This book is a challenge to the enduring status and domination of bio-medical approaches
in mental health services. Contributors from four continents argue that this domination, along …