Disability Studies
A Student's Guide
Sociology of Health and Illness
An interdisciplinary and broad-ranging text, the book includes 50 chapters on topics relevant across health and social care. Reflective questions and suggestions for further reading throughout will help readers gain a critical appreciation of the subject and expand their knowledge.
This will be valuable reading for students and professionals across disability studies, health, nursing, social work, social care, social policy and sociology.
Really well laid out into small chapters which are accessible for students who require an introduction to issues relating to Disabaility Studies.
A good idea to present disability studies as a dictionary! Helpful are the discussion questions. And the most themes are covered. Some articles are four my purposes too strongly related to the English situation, but we in Germany can learn a lot from these.
Relevant beginners reference
Format is useful for the students to be able to identify key areas for their practice. A very useful book with a great insight into some of the complexities of disability studies
This book provides a wide range of relevant information in short but concise chapters. A very good introduction to disability studies.
This book helps me to develop the content of textbooks on social work with PWD in Vietnamese for undergraduate and postgraduate students. It is also introduced in Vietnam Social Work Network website At http://socialwork.vn. Thanks for your great supports
An accessible, foundational knowledge base which situates the reader in a contemporary social world. I like the way the concepts are set out alphabetically. I think it will be a very utilised and useful text. Nora Duckett January 2014
A very exhaustive, updated and useful source on disability from a UK, social model, critical and militant perspective which aligns with disabled people's movements. Implicitly, the stress is on disability associated to physical impairment, with 'the wheelchair' as a referent and icon. Yet the book is successful in promoting critical reflection on all relevant areas, dimensions and conditions of the experience of disability.
I am unsure about the Glossary format of the book, since its contents compose an integrated approach that might have been structured in a coherent argument otherwise. On the other hand, the "For Discussion" section is sometimes useful, but in most chapters it is reduced to a few "reading comprehension" questions where we could have more inspiring and case-oriented proposals.
These complaints are minor. As a whole, I am very happy to have found this source which has enlightened me and changed my views on disability issues to better, and it will definitely help improve my teaching in the matter.
A good supportive text to help the students to understand the research within the course.
Captures the essence of health and social care within the disability perspective.
