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This path-breaking Handbook of Disability Studies signals the emergence of a vital new area of scholarship, social policy and activism. Drawing on the insights of disability scholars around the world and the creative advice of an international editorial board, the book engages the reader in the critical issues and debates framing disability studies and places them in an historical and cultural context. Five years in the making, this one volume summarizes the ongoing discourse ranging across continents and traditional academic disciplines. The Handbook answers the need expressed by the disability community for a thought provoking, interdisciplinary, international examination of the vibrant field of disability
Disability Human Rights, Law, and Policy
Disability Human Rights, Law, and Policy
It has been common for decades to identify the “human rights approach” to disability advocacy as the single most important political development in the struggle for equal participation by people with mental and physical disabilities. Although true enough, it is important to ...
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