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Disabled people and social policy: from exclusion to inclusion
- Authors:
- OLIVER Michael, BARNES Colin
- Publisher:
- Longman
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 187p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Harlow
Provides an introduction to key issues in disability and social policy which have emerged in the light of changing approaches towards disability over the last fifteen years. The concepts of exclusion and inclusion provide the central focus around which the book is organised. Examines the contradictions and dilemmas of state provided welfare; explores the definitions surrounding disability, the historical background to analysis and the development and implications of social policy for disabled people; analyses the social model of disability and the perceptions and attitudes surrounding the meaning of disability within contemporary society; explores the disabled people's movement and the focus on independent living; outlines policy options for empowering disabled people; and includes policy statements written by disabled people and their organisations, various international charters and documents emphasising the rights of disabled people and selected extracts from legislation and policy statements.