Health Studies

Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies

Edited by Nick Watson, Alan Roulstone, Carol Thomas

The Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies takes a multidisciplinary approach to disability and provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of the main issues in the field around the world today. Adopting an international perspective and consisting entirely of newly commissioned chapters...

Published February 1st 2012 by Routledge

Towards a Contextual Psychology of Disablism

By Brian Watermeyer

Series: Routledge Advances in Disability Studies

In recent years, disability studies has been driven by a model of disability which focuses on the social and economic oppression of disabled people. Although an important counterbalance to a pathologising medical model, the social model risks presenting an impoverished and disembodied view of...

Published July 2nd 2012 by Routledge

Disability, Hate Crime and Violence

Edited by Alan Roulstone, Hannah Mason-Bish

Series: Routledge Advances in Disability Studies

This book provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary examination of disability, hate crime and violence, exploring its emergence on the policy agenda. Engaging with the latest debates in criminology, disability and violence studies, it goes beyond conventional notions of hate crime to look at...

Published June 11th 2012 by Routledge

Intellectual Disability and Social Theory

Philosophical Debates on Being Human

By Chrissie Rogers

Series: Routledge Advances in Disability Studies

Intellectual disability is often overlooked within mainstream disability studies and theories developed about disability and physical impairment may not always be appropriate when thinking about intellectual (or learning) disability. This pioneering book discusses social theory and philosophical...

To Be Published January 19th 2014 by Routledge

Paediatric Rehabilitation Engineering

From Disability to Possibility

Edited by Tom Chau, Jillian Fairley

Series: Rehabilitation Science in Practice Series

Innovations in paediatric rehabilitation engineering can serve as a springboard to education, psychosocial, social, physical and cognitive development for children and youth with disabilities. Instead of providing an overview of rehabilitation engineering, Paediatric Rehabilitation Engineering...

Published December 16th 2010 by CRC Press

Disability in Medieval Europe

Thinking about Physical Impairment in the High Middle Ages, c.1100–c.1400

By Irina Metzler

This impressive volume presents a thorough examination of all aspects of physical impairment and disability in medieval Europe. Examining a popular era that is of great interest to many historians and researchers, Irene Metzler presents a theoretical framework of disability and explores key areas...

Published July 8th 2010 by Routledge