Rethinking Disability - Bodies, Senses, and Things

Informationen zum Autor Michael Schillmeier is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich. Klappentext This text is a critical and empirically-based introduction to disability studies. It offers a comprehensive, book-length analysis of disability through the lens of Science and Technology Studies (STS), and presents a practice-oriented discussion of how bodies, senses and things are linked in everyday life and configure "enabling" and "disabling" scenarios. Relevant to a broad spectrum of medical practitioners and practicing social service workers, the book will also be essential reading in the fields of disability studies, sociology of the body/senses, medical sociology and STS. Zusammenfassung This title offers the first comprehensive, book-length analysis of disability through the lens of Science and Technology Studies (STS). Relevant to a broad spectrum of practicing social service workers, the book will also be essential reading in the fields of disability studies, sociology of the body/senses, medical sociology and STS. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Rethinking Disability: Revisiting the Social Part 1: ‘The Social’ in Question: Rethinking Modern Di/visions 1. The Social and the Religion of Modernity 2. Othering Blindness in the Light of Vision and Di/vision Part 2: In Medias Res 3. A Dis/ability Manifesto Part 3: Dis/abling Practices 4. Dis/abling Spaces of Calculation 5. Time-Spaces of In/dependence and Dis/ability 6. From Exclusive Perspectives to Inclusive Differences 7. Concluding Remarks

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• Authors: Michael Schillmeier, Michael (Ludwig-Maximilians Universit Schillmeier, Michael (Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich Schillmeier, Professor Michael Schillmeier, SCHILLMEIER MICHAEL
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.01.2010
• EAN: 9780415993258
• ISBN: 978-0-415-99325-8
• No. of pages: 210
• Series: Routledge Studies in Science T; Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ergonomie, SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Industrial Health & Safety, Disability: social aspects, Ergonomics