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This book explains how space, place and mobility have shaped the experiences of disabled people both in the past and in contemporary societies. The key features of this insightful study include: * a critical appraisal of theories of disability and a new disability model * case studies to explore how the transition to capitalism disadvantaged disabled people * an exploration of the Western city and the policies of community care and accessibility regulation. Brendan Gleeson presents an important contribution to the major policy debates on disability in Western societies and offers new considerations for the broader debates on embodiment and space within Geography.

For years the subject of human disability has engaged those in the biological, social and cognitive sciences, while at the same time, it has been curiously neglected within the humanities. The Body and Physical Difference seeks to introduce the field of disability studies into the humanities by exploring the fantasies and fictions that have crystallized around conceptions of physical and cognitive difference. Based on the premise that the significance of disabilities in culture and the arts has been culturally vexed as well as historically erased, the collection probes our society's pathological investment in human variability and "aberrancy." The contributors demonstrate how definitions of disability underpin fundamental concepts such as normalcy, health, bodily integrity, individuality, citizenship, and morality--all terms that define the very essence of what it means to be human. The book provides a provocative range of topics and perspectives: the absence of physical "otherness" in Ancient Greece, the depiction of the female invalid in Victorian literature, the production of tragic innocence in British and American telethons, the reconstruction of Civil War amputees, and disability as the aesthetic basis for definitions of expendable life within the modern eugenics movement. With this new, secure anchoring in the humanities, disability studies now emerges as a significant strain in contemporary theories of identity and social marginality. Moving beyond the oversimplication that disabled people are marginalized and made invisible by able-ist assumptions and practices, the contributors demonstrate that representation is founded upon the perpetual exhibition of human anomalies. In this sense, all art can be said to migrate toward the "freakish" and the "grotesque." Such a project paradoxically makes disability the exception and the rule of the desire to represent that which has been traditionally out-of-bounds in polite discourse. The Body and Physical Difference has relevance across a wide range of academic specialties such as cultural studies, the sociology of medicine, history, literature and medicine, the allied health professions, rehabilitation, aesthetics, philosophical discourses of the body, literary and film studies, and narrative theory.

In this absorbing text by a leading writer and respected activist, theory, policy, historical background and personal experience are combined to give readers a rich and illuminating picture of the key issues raised by disability. In the author's uniquely clear and lively narrative style, the book explores: - The practical and political challenges that disablement presents - Theoretical understandings of disability - Disability law and the realities of policy implementation - Key points of contention for the disability movement This long-awaited new edition of a best-selling text includes new stories from the author's experience, as well as sharply framed debate about the development of policy over the last decade and a half. Its expansive coverage includes discussion of welfare, rehabilitation, special education and normalization. This book is core reading for students of social work, nursing, health and applied social science taking modules in disability studies. Michael Oliver was the first Professor of Disability Studies in the United Kingdom and is Emeritus Professor of Disability Studies at the University of Greenwich, UK. He is the author of the path-breaking The Politics of Disablement and Social Work with Disabled People (in its third edition, co-authored with Bob Sapey).

Demokrasi en iyi yönetim şekli midir? Özgür olmak ne anlama gelir? İnsanlar her anlamda eşit olmalı mıdır? Adil bir toplum yapısı nasıl ortaya çıkarılabilir? Mülkiyet hakkının doğurduğu adaletsizlik giderilebilir mi? Devlet yönetiminde etik yaklaşımlar göz ardı edilebilir mi? İnsan doğuştan iyi midir, kötü müdür? Kapitalizm, sosyalizm, faşizm nedir, kimlere hizmet eder? Yazar Pete Woodcock, siyaset teorisinin bu temel sorularını geçmişten günümüze dünya düşünce tarihine yön vermiş filozofların yaklaşımları çerçevesinde ele alıyor; Sokrates’i, Platon’u, John Locke’u, Thomas Hobbes’u, Jean Jacques Rousseau’yu, Nietzsche’yi ve daha nice büyük düşünürü birbirleriyle tartışmaya sokarak ve yaklaşımlarını temel unsurlarıyla aktararak bu soruların yanıtlarını ve siyasetin doğasını gözler önüne seriyor. Siyaset teorisini ve dünyanın bugün bulunduğu durumu anlamak ve yorumlamak açısından geçmişten günümüze temel kabul edilen siyasi öğretiler, bu kitapta sade, anlaşılır ve çarpıcı biçimde okura sunuluyor.