Handicap and Politics

This book is the product of a collaborative research effort of academics and practitioners of accompaniment - a method whose aim is to enable mentally handicapped adults to lead autonomous lives in an ordinary environment. Its intent is to present the idiom of accompaniment , explain its daily practice within a theoretical context, and demonstrate that handicap is a personal challenge which must be understood as a public issue. In the crucible of individual suffering which goes on day after day, a society is fashioned: as a reflection of issues which are or not put on the political agenda, in the consequences which follow, and in the discursive codes which are disseminated.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3631487630
• ISBN13: 9783631487631
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 225 Pages