Mind and Body Spaces - Geographies of Illness, Impairment and Disability

List of contents

1: New Geographies of Illness, Impairment and Disability; 2: The Body, Disability and Le Corbusier's Conception of the Radiant Environment; 3: The Moral Topography of Intemperance; 4: Rhetoric and Place in the ‘Mental Deficiency' Asylum; 5: Can Technology Overcome the Disabling City?; 6: Body Troubles: Women, the Workplace and Negotiations of a Disabled Identity; 7: Workspaces: Refiguring the Disability-Employment Debate; 8: Autobiographical Notes on Chronic Illness; 9: What it Means to be a Man the Body, Masculinities, Disability; 10: Bodies and Psychiatric Medicine: Interpreting Different Geographies of Mental Health; 11: Double the Trouble or Twice the Fun? Disabled Bodies in the Gay Community; 12: Without these Walls: A Geography of Mental Illhealth in a Rural Environment; 13: Accommodating Difference: Social Justice, Disability and the Design of Affordable Housing; 14: ‘Caught in the Cinderella Trap': Narratives of Disabled Parents and Young Carers; 15: Body Politics: Disabled Women's Activism in Canada and Beyond

About the author

Ruth Butler, Hester Parr

Summary

Mind and Body Spaces highlights new international research from Britain, USA, Canada and Australia on bodily impairment, mental health and disabling social worlds.

Product details

• Assisted by: Ruth Butler (Editor), Butler Ruth (Editor), Hester Parr (Editor), Parr Hester (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.08.1999
• EAN: 9780415179034
• ISBN: 978-0-415-17903-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Weight: 590 g
• Series: Critical Geographies
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, Human Geography