Understanding Disability Policies

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the development and consequences of disability policies, contrasting policies grounded in medical definitions of disability with a ''social model'' of disability supported by disability rights campaigners in their pursuit of anti-discrimination legislation. British policies are set in comparative context, and the impacts of policy on disabled people according to their class, gender, age and ethnicity are explored.>

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Structure of the Book
PART ONE: THE MEANING OF DISABILITY
Theoretical Understandings of Disability
PART TWO: DISABILITY POLICY, MODELS AND DEVELOPMENT
Models of Disability Policy
The Development of Disability Policies in Britain
Contemporary Disability Policies in Britain
Contemporary British Policy in the International Context
PART THREE: POLICY OUTCOMES AND DISABLED PEOPLE'S RESPONSES
Social Class and Disability
Gender and Disability
Minority Ethnic Communities and Disability
Age and Disability Policies
Disabled People and the Policy Process
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index.

About the author

ROBERT F. DRAKE is Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Wales, Swansea, UK, and an Associate Lecturer with the Open University, UK.

Product details

• Authors: J. Ed Drake, J. Ed. Drake, Robert E. Drake, Robert F Drake, Robert F. Drake, DRAKE ROBERT F
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.02.1999
• EAN: 9780333724262
• ISBN: 978-0-333-72426-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Politik und Staat, SPORTS & RECREATION / Sociology of Sports, MEDICAL / Nursing / General, Politics / Current Events, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare