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Studying disability : multiple theories and responses
- Author
- DePoy, Elizabeth.
- Title
- Studying disability : multiple theories and responses / Elizabeth DePoy, Stephen French Gilson.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Los Angeles : SAGE, c2011.
- Description
- ix, 250 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Other contributors
- Gilson, Stephen French.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-234) and index.
- Contents
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- Foundations
- Looking back : ancient Greece through the 19th century
- Disability in the 20th and 21st centuries : medical condition, construction, or commodity
- The descriptive element of explanatory legitimacy
- Explanations introduced
- Longitudinal explanations
- Environmental explanations
- Categorical explanations
- Systems explanations
- Contemporary and emerging explanations
- Legitimacy : what is it?
- Who is a legitimate category member?
- Legitimate humanities responses
- Legitimate social science responses
- Legitimate professional responses
- Integrative academic-professional stance through disjuncture theory
- A model of community legitimacy : creating human-environment juncture.
- Subject headings
- Disability studies.
- ISBN
- 9781412975766 (pbk.) 141297576X (pbk.)