Exploring Disability by Colin Barnes

Exploring Disability by Colin Barnes

The second edition of this widely used text has been carefully rewritten to ensure that it is up-to-date with cutting-edge debates, evidence, and policy changes.

"The key debates around disability are given a thorough airing in this revised edition of a widely used text"
Times Educational Supplement

"If students and teachers want one resource to assist in their exploration of disability studies, then this is itIt's up-to-date, comprehensive and coherent, outlining the key themes and issues in a readable way. No-one studying disability on an undergraduate, postgraduate or professional training course should be without it."
Mike Oliver, Emeritus Professor, University of Greenwich

"Exploring Disability is an important, up-to-date, critical and wide-ranging review of key issues that situates the debates and discussion within the growing literature on disability. Exploring Disability should be on the reading lists of many disability studies courses providing as it does the broad overview of where both the discipline and the movement are today. It is a must for academics, policy makers, researchers, and the disability movement."
Marcia Rioux, York Institute for Health Research, Toronto

Colin Barnes is Professor of Disability Studies in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds and Visiting Professor of Disability Studies at the University of Halmstad, Sweden
Geof Mercer is a former Reader in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds.

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ISBN 13	9780745634869
ISBN 10	0745634869
Title	Exploring Disability
Author	Colin Barnes
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Year published	2010-03-26
Number of pages	288
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