An archi-texture of learning disability services: the use of Michel Foucault
- Author:
- MCINTOSH Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 17(1), January 2002, pp.65-79.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The work of Michel Foucault has been widely used in the social sciences to explore relationships of power and knowledge. This article utilises Foucault's methods in an initial formation of discourse in the problem of care of people with learning disabilities, and focuses on the problematisation of people with learning disabilities and their care needs. This article is spilt into two halves; first classification and support structures, and secondly an architexture of learning disability services.
- Subject terms:
- learning disabilities, models, needs, social care provision, social work theories, sociology, empowerment;
- Link:
- Journal home page
- ISSN online:
- 1360-0508
- ISSN print:
- 0968-7599