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Disability discourse
- Editors:
- CORKER Mairian, FRENCH Sally
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 238p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Buckingham
Draws on personal narratives, rhetoric, material discourse, discourse analysis, cultural representation, ethnography, and contextual studies to emphasise the multi dimensional and multifunctional nature of disability language in an attempt to further inform our understanding of disability and to locate disability more firmly within contemporary mainstream social and cultural theory.
Welfare benefits: new benefits hope for disabled
- Author:
- VAUX Gary
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 26.8.99, 1999, p.29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Explains how the recent decision by the social security commissioner to overrule four judges of the Benefits Agency gives fresh hope to disabled people.
The 'normal' and the monstrous in disability research
- Author:
- CLEAR Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 14(4), July 1999, pp.435-448.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article contributes to the ongoing discussion of doing and writing disability research by revisiting research as politics, exposing the meeting point of modern and post-modern approaches, and proposing a stronger materiality, and reintegration of theory and practice. The implications are that a personalised approach is needed to explore critically across disciplinary boundaries, beyond unilateral discourse into assumed knowledge. Discusses some key approaches, which when taken together support critical exploration.
Act on equality
- Author:
- CLOUGH Julie
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 7.7.99, 1999, p.29.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Since becoming law, the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 has been praised and criticised. Explains how it affects nurses with disabilities.
Welfare Rights: Long live the son of BIP
- Author:
- VAUX Gary
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 3.6.99, 1999, p.29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The recently live the axed Benefits Integrity Project was seen by many as unjustifiably intrusive and inefficient. The author asks if its successor will be any better.
Writing disability history: problems perspectives and sources
- Author:
- BREDBERG Elizabeth
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 14(2), March 1999, pp.189-201.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper presents a critique of the uses of history that currently predominate within disability studies and also offers suggestions for ways in which disability history may be made more relevant to the emancipatory role of the discipline, more rigorous and more complete.
Welfare rights: the dangers of working while on sickness benefit
- Author:
- BATEMAN Neil
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 4.3.99, 1999, p.27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author looks at the problems people face with social security rules when they want to work while they are also claiming benefits.
Disability and volunteering: an extract from a new guide to good practice
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Volunteering, 45, February 1999, p.21.
- Publisher:
- Volunteering England
Presents an extract from a new handbook 'Disability and Equality in Volunteering' which aims to help organisations understand some of the issues.
Sexuality and disability: a guide for everyday practice
- Authors:
- COOPER Elaine, GUILLEBAUD John
- Publisher:
- Radcliffe Medical Press
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 98p.
- Place of publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon
Practical text presenting a clear explanation of the issues concerning sexuality and disability for all professionals working with disabled people or people with learning difficulties. Uses case studies throughout.
Inspection of short-term breaks for people with physical disabilities and older people: Leeds City Council; May 1999
- Author:
- FRUIN David
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate. North East In
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 53p.
- Place of publication:
- Gateshead
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