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Implementing the social model of disability: theory and research
- Editors:
- BARNES Colin, MERCER Geof
- Publisher:
- Disability Press
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 233p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
This book contains 13 chapters on the theoretical and research implications of the social model of disability. Over the last three decades disability activists have established the social model of disability as a comprehensive critique of mainstream academic theories and policy approaches. The contributors, including established figures and newcomers to the field, raise a number of important controversies and concerns central to theorising and researching disability in the 21st century. Taken together they provide ample testimony to the continuing vitality of debates around the social model in disability studies.
Responsible choice: the choice between no choice
- Authors:
- WAREING David, NEWELL Christopher
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 17(4), June 2002, pp.419- 434.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article explores the way 'choice' is constituted by professional and support staff in naturally-occurring-talk within an Australian disability service. That choice is really the choice you have when you are not having a choice, a situation indicative of the wider social milieu and the disablism found in society. Membership Categorisation Analysis is used to highlight the moral reasoning which occurs in the everyday, based upon disablist norms.Critical reflection upon contemporary bioethics is used to suggest that choice as an expression of autonomy is not only contextual, but far more than the hedonistic approach adopted by Western disability services.
Doing disability research: activist lives and the academy
- Authors:
- GOODLEY Dan, MOORE Michele
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 15(6), October 2000, pp.861-882.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The authors re-present a paper given at a conference on the performing arts of people with 'learning difficulties', where the audience was made up of performers, workers, providers and researchers. This paper attempted to be accessible, theoretical, political and practical. Secondly, the authors reflect upon this paper in relation to seven points of analysis that emerge at the boundaries of disability politics and disability research. Argues throughout that real efforts must be made to bridge these boundaries in ways that augment disability theory and politics together.
'What matters to me is not what you're talking about' - maintaining the social model of disability in 'public and private' negotiations
- Authors:
- BECKETT Clare, WRIGHTON Elizabeth
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 15(7), December 2000, pp.991-999.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Moving from a medical to a social model of individual disability is a political process of change with implications for understanding of and relationship to borders between individual, social life and political participation. This process has echoes in the conceptual experience of change through movement for women's liberation and gay liberation. Conceptualisation of a public/private divide has been identified in both these movements, and can also be used productively to further the use of a social model of disability. In this way, public change in status and participation can be linked to private defeat of barriers to public and political participation. This article identifies some uses of conceptualising public and private as a way of locating service provision within a social model of disability.
Law and social work: contemporary issues for practice
- Editors:
- CULL Lesley-Ann, ROCHE Jeremy
- Publisher:
- Palgrave/Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 302p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
Divided into three sections, each of which sheds light in different ways on the challenges and critical issues raised at the interface between social work and the law, this text covers issues such as: the relationship between social work values and the law; partnership with service users; risk and professional judgement; human rights; child protection and family support; elder abuse; youth justice; disability and special educational needs; and community care.
Practice and research in social work: postmodern feminist perspectives
- Editors:
- FAWCETT Barbara, et al
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 212p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Includes papers on: postmodernity and postmodern feminism; disability; a postmodern perspective on professional ethics; deconstructing and reconstructing professional expertise; mothers' violence; profeminist men's narratives; and representations of families.
Changing practice in health and social care
- Editors:
- DAVIES Celia, FINLAY Linda, BULLMAN Anne
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 400p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Collection of papers exploring current challenges facing practitioners across a broad spectrum of the caring professions. Includes chapters on: reshaping welfare; the public administration model of welfare delivery; community care in the 1990s; changes in maternity policy; human behaviour and social policy; theory and practice in health and social care; applying reflective practice; reflection and reflective practice; requirements of a caregiver; social work values; anti oppressive theory and practice in social work; working with diversity; keys to collaboration; collaboration and conflict within the treatment team; using psychotherapeutic concepts to understand team conflict; the missing link in quality assurance for disabled people; developing the role of user involvement in the UK; the role of women support staff in relation to men with learning difficulties who have difficult sexual behaviour; care costs; confidentiality, accountability and the boundaries of client worker relationships; obstacles to medical audit; the accreditation experience; the resettlement of people with severe learning difficulties; the creative work of care package purchasing; voluntary sector boards in a changing public policy environment; professional practice in social work and health care; a new social basis for welfare; and user voice, interprofessionalism and postmodernity.