Rethinking Disability: Bodies, Senses, and Things

By Michael Schillmeier

Book Overview

This text is a critical and empirically-based introduction to disability studies. It offers a comprehensive, book-length analysis of disability through the lens of Science and Technology Studies (STS), and presents a practice-oriented discussion of how bodies, senses and things are linked in everyday life and configure "enabling" and "disabling" scenarios. Relevant to a broad spectrum of medical practitioners and practicing social service workers, the book will also be essential reading in the fields of disability studies, sociology of the body/senses, medical sociology and STS.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041581054X
• ISBN13: 9780415810548
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"