Disability Books

New and Published Books

1. 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 October 15th 2008 by Routledge
2. Disabled People and the Right to Life

   The Protection and Violation of Disabled People’s Most Basic Human Rights

   Edited by Luke Clements, Janet Read

   The most basic of human rights, the right to life, is the focus of this book. 'Human rights' has increasingly come to be seen as a significant framework, both to aid understanding of the experiences of those who face oppression, and to underpin social, legal and political measures to counter it....

   Published January 16th 2008 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