1. Social Policy and Disability: some theoretical issues.
- Author
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Oliver, Mike
- Subjects
PEOPLE with disabilities ,SOCIAL policy ,SOCIAL history ,SOCIAL theory ,SOCIOLOGY ,SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
This paper suggests that current ways of thinking about disability are inadequate, both theoretically. and as a basis for social policy. The main reason for this is that most writers have remained locked within a 'personal tragedy theory of disability' and have failed to examine the concept of disability critically. Even those writers who have attempted to take disability seriously have failed to move beyond a traditional framework and have subsequently produced sterile accounts. The final section of the paper begins to suggest what a social theory of disability might look like. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 1986
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