Understanding Disability Policies
Description
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the development and consequences of disability policies, contrasting policies grounded in medical definitions of disability with a 'social model' of disability supported by disability rights campaigners in their pursuit of anti-discrimination legislation. British policies are set in comparative context, and the impacts of policy on disabled people according to their class, gender, age and ethnicity are explored.
Keywords
Business & EconomicsEconomicsMedicalNursingPolitical SciencePublic PolicySocial Services & WelfareEconomic PolicySocial PolicySports & RecreationCultural & Social Aspects
1999Book
Author(s)Robert F. Drake
PublisherMacmillan Education UK
ISBN9780333724262
LanguageEnglish
