This paper critically reviews medical approaches to the identification and treatment of
disability. The medical model locates disability within individuals. By contrast, this paper …

With contributions from David Brake, Jesse Elvin, Rebecca Gooch, Judith Livingstone and
Russell Luyt. Key points from the evidence on harm and offence:* Research shows some …

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 …

Written in a clear and accessible style, with lots of examples from Anglo-American media,
Gender and the Media offers a critical introduction to the study of gender in the media, and …

This chapter examines the origins of the social model. It addresses the various debates that
have emerged since the late 1990s and argue that, without the social model of disability …

Impairment and imagery are neglected within the social model approaches to disability. This
is connected to a neglect of representation. Comparing the experience of disabled people to …

The eighth edition of this text remains an indispensable resource for mass communication
psychology and media effects courses. This book gives readers an in-depth understanding …

Media representation of and for the disabled has been recharged in recent years with the
expansion of new media worldwide. Interactive digital communications--such as the Interact …

Racial1 imagery is central to the organisation of the modern world. At what cost regions and
countries export their goods, whose voices are listened to at international gatherings, who …