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1. Disability Rights and Wrongs Revisited

   2nd Edition

   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 a firmer conceptual and empirical footing....

   To Be Published October 6th 2013 by Routledge
2. Arguing about Disability

   Philosophical Perspectives

   Edited by Kristjana Kristiansen, Simo Vehmas, Tom Shakespeare

   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 politicized debates. Sustained theoretical scrutiny has sometimes been lost amongst the controversy and...

   Published July 12th 2010 by Routledge
3. Disability Rights and Wrongs

   By Tom Shakespeare

   Over the last thirty 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 the social model theory has reached a dead end. Drawing on a...

   Published August 30th 2006 by Routledge