Disability Rights and Wrongs Revisited
2nd Edition
By Tom Shakespeare
To Be Published October 7th 2013 by Routledge – 288 pages
Description
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 activist Tom Shakespeare argues that disability research needs a firmer conceptual and empirical footing.
This new edition is updated throughout, reflecting Shakespeare’s most recent thinking, drawing on current research, and responding to controversies surrounding the first edition and the World Report on Disability, as well as incorporating new chapters on cultural disability studies, personal assistance, sexuality, and violence. Using a critical realist approach, Disability Rights and Wrongs promotes a pluralist, engaged and nuanced approach to disability. Key topics discussed include:
- dichotomies – going beyond dangerous polarizations such as medical model versus social model to achieve a complex, multi-factorial account of disability
- identity - the drawbacks of the disability movement's emphasis on identity politics
- bioethics - choices at the beginning and end of life and in the field of genetic and stem cell therapies
- relationships – feminist and virtue ethics approaches to questions of intimacy, assistance and friendship.
This stimulating and accessible book challenges disability studies orthodoxy, promoting a new conceptualization of disability and fresh research agenda. It is an invaluable resource for researchers and students in disability studies and sociology, as well as professionals, policy makers and activists.
Reviews
‘Disability Rights and Wrongs Revisited is an enormously important book for anyone who wants to understand what disability studies has already achieved, what it has failed to achieve, and what it should aspire to achieve in the future. Tom Shakespeare’s writing is irreverent, clear, and wise.’ – Dr Erik Parens, Senior Research Scholar,The Hastings Center, USA.
Contents
1. Introduction Part 1: Foundations 2. Materialist Disability Studies 3. Cultural Disability Studies 4. Critical Realist Disability Studies 5. Labels and Badges Part 2: Applications 6. Questioning Prenatal Diagnosis 7. Just Around the Corner: The Quest for Cure 8. Autonomy at the End of Life 9. Personal Assistance as a Relationship 10. Friendship 11. Thinking About Disability, Sex and Love 12. Understanding Violence Against Disabled People
Author Bio
Tom Shakespeare is a Senior Lecturer in Medical Sociology at the University of East Anglia, UK. He was until recently a member of the Disability and Rehabilitation team at WHO, where he was an author and editor of the World Report on Disability. He has previously held academic posts at the Universities of Sunderland, Leeds and Newcastle.
Name: Disability Rights and Wrongs Revisited: 2nd Edition (Paperback) – Routledge
Description: By Tom Shakespeare. 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 activist Tom Shakespeare argues that disability research needs...
Categories: Disability, Disability Studies - Sociology, The Body & Identity, Health & Society, Health & Illness, Social Work and Disability
