1990International Journal of Rehabilitation ResearchRequires access

The Politics of Disablement

Michael Oliver, HUGH M. BOCHEL

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Dominant views of disability as an individual and medical problems have been vigorously challenged by disabled people in recent years. This book, by an author who is himself disabled, looks at the ind

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Dominant views of disability as an individual and medical problems have been vigorously challenged by disabled people in recent years. This book, by an author who is himself disabled, looks at the ind

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Dominant views of disability as an individual and medical problems have been vigorously challenged by disabled people in recent years. This book, by an author who is himself disabled, looks at the ind

Key concepts: Ideology, Politics, Meaning (existential), Structuring, Index (typography), Capitalism, Sociology, Social movement

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