Disability Studies
A Student's Guide
- Colin Cameron - Northumbria University, UK
Disability & Rehabilitation | Learning & Physical Disabilities | Sociology of Health & Illness
An interdisciplinary and broad-ranging text, the book includes 50 chapters on topics relevant across health and social care. Reflective questions and suggestions for further reading throughout will help readers gain a critical appreciation of the subject and expand their knowledge.
This will be valuable reading for students and professionals across disability studies, health, nursing, social work, social care, social policy and sociology.
A good supportive text to help the students to understand the research within the course.
Recommended reading for students researching disability topic
An easily accessible text, that will provide the student with a strong foundation in disabilities studies,
This is a useful overview of key issues in disability studies. It is also written with a student audience in mind, which makes it accessible and engaging. It provides bite-sized chapters which give a flavour of a wide range of disability issues and acts as a signposting resource to support students to seek additional in depth information from other sources. There is a healthy link to interdisciplinary subjects throughout the chapters, which will effectively support students to consider disability from a broad range of perspectives and models. It almost acts as a useful glossary of core concepts related to disability studies.
An accessible, foundational knowledge base which situates the reader in a contemporary social world. I like the way the concepts are set out alphabetically. I think it will be a very utilised and useful text. Nora Duckett January 2014
Good text for further reading.
A good idea to present disability studies as a dictionary! Helpful are the discussion questions. And the most themes are covered. Some articles are four my purposes too strongly related to the English situation, but we in Germany can learn a lot from these.
In this year´s course we focused on issues concerned around disability & work, employment ... so could only use a few chapters/contributions of the book. Of greater usability for other subject focus, perhaps in an upcoming course.
Best, RL
This is a useful overview of key issues in disability studies. It is also written with a student audience in mind, which makes it accessible and engaging. It provides bite-sized chapters which give a flavour of a wide range of disability issues and acts as a signposting resource to support students to seek additional in depth information from other sources. There is a healthy link to interdisciplinary subjects throughout the chapters, which will effectively support students to consider disability from a broad range of perspectives and models. It almost acts as a useful glossary of core concepts related to disability studies.
Touches a number of issues dealt with during the course. Easy to ready for first time students of Disability Issues.
