Over recent years there has been an unprecedented upsurge of interest in the general area of disability and disability studies amongst academics and researchers

Grouped around four central themes – illness and impairment, disabling processes, care and control, and communication and representations – this collection

'Personal inclination made me a historian. Personal encounter with public policy made me an activist.'

Images of disability pervade language and literature, yet disability is, as the volume's introduction notes, "the ubiquitous unspoken topic in contemporary cult

This textbook brings together a wide range of expert voices from the field of disability studies and the disabled people′s movement to tackle the essential to