Rethinking Disability: Principles for Professional and Social Change
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Description
This book provides a theoretical lens through which to view Disability. Rather than taking a medical-diagnostic stance, which has been the traditional perspective, the authors explain disability as category in which membership is based on of judgments about explanations for what people do, experience and how they appear. In Part I, the authors discuss various aspects of the history and current trends, which influence how disability is defined and addressed. In Part II, Explanatory Legitimacy' (EL) theory is explained in detail and applied to an analysis of disability. In Part III, the EL theory is applied to rethinking disability now and in the future.
ISBN
9780534549299
Publication Date
2004
Publisher
Thomson/Brooks/Cole
City
Belmont, CA
Keywords
Disability studies
Disciplines
Social Work
Recommended Citation
DePoy, Elizabeth and Gilson, Stephen French, "Rethinking Disability: Principles for Professional and Social Change" (2004). Faculty and Staff Monograph Publications. 180.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/fac_monographs/180