Disabling barriers - enabling environments / edited by John Swain, Sally French, Colin Barnes & Carol Thomas.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

An historical overview -- Disability and impairment / Carol Thomas -- Disability, disability studies and the academy / Colin Barnes -- Developing an affirmative model of disability and impairment / Colin Cameron -- Dependence, independence and normality / Colin Goble -- Reflections on doing emancipatory disability research / Colin Barnes -- International perspectives on disability / John Swain and Sally French -- Disability and the body / Bill Hughes -- Disability and psychology / Dan Goodley -- Women and disability / Alison Sheldon -- Men, masculinities and disability / Steve Robertson and Brett Smith -- Lying down anyhow : disability and the rebel body / Liz Crow -- Psycho-emotional disablism and internalised oppression / Donna Reeve -- Generating debates : why we need a life-course approach to disability issues / Mark Priestley -- The representation of disabled people in the news media / Robert Williams-Findlay -- Disability culture : the story so far / Alison Wilde -- 'Race', ethnicity and disability / Yasmin Hussain -- Who is disabled? Exploring the scope of the social model of disability / Dan Goodley -- Disabled people, disability and sexuality / Selina Bonnie -- Challenging barriers and enabling inclusion : the role of families / Dawn Benson and Sarah Keyes -- Disability and childhood : a journey towards inclusion / John M. Davis -- Housing and independent living / Laura Hemingway -- Changing technology / Alison Sheldon -- Communication barriers : building access and inclusive relationships / Alan Hewitt and Carole Pound -- Controlling exclusion in education / Michele Moore -- User involvement in services for disabled people / Sally French -- User-led organisations : facilitating independent living? / Hannah Morgan -- Accessing social and leisure activities : barriers to inclusion experienced by visually impaired people / Donna Maria Brown, Pauline Gertig and Maureen Gillman, with Joyce Anderson, Cathy Clarke and Simon Powell -- Disability, sport and exercising bodies / Brett Smith and Anthony Papathomas -- Disability and aging / Ann Macfarlane -- Disabled people, work and welfare / Alan Roulstone -- Care : controlling and personalising services / Sarah Woodin -- Counselling and disabled people : help or hindrance? / Donna Reeve -- Developments in mental health policy and practice : service user critiques / Peter Beresford -- The global economy of 'care' / Maria Berghs -- Disability and social inclusion in the information society / Sally French and John Swain -- Designing inclusive environments and the significance of universal design / Rob Imrie -- Genetics, disability and bioethics / Alice Maynard -- Disability, death and dying : a rights-based discussion of the ultimate barrier facing disabled people / Bill Armer -- Hate crime and the criminal justice system / Pam Thomas -- Human rights in context : making rights count / Marcia Rioux and Bonita Heath -- The future of disability studies / Alison Sheldon.