Accessible Arts / arts + disability NSW

PUBLICATION. Taylor & Francis Books Ltd ( published 31 Aug 2006). A new book by disability academic and activist Tom Shakespeare. He argues that social model theory has reached a dead end. Drawing on a critical realist perspective, Shakespeare promotes a pluralist, engaged and nuanced approach to disability. Key topics discussed include: dichotomies - the dangerous polarisations of medical model versus social model, impairment versus disability and disabled people versus non-disabled people; identity - the drawbacks of the disability movement's emphasis on identity politics; bioethics in disability - choices at the beginning and end of life, and in the field of genetic and stem cell therapies; and care and social relationships - questions of intimacy and friendship. This publication challenges orthodoxies in British disability studies, promoting a new conceptualization of disability and fresh research agenda. ISBN: 041534719X from www.amazon.com