Understanding Disability Policies

By Robert E. Drake

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the development and consequences of disability policies, contrasting policies grounded in medical definitions of disability with a 'social model' of disability supported by disability rights campaigners in their pursuit of anti-discrimination legislation. British policies are set in comparative context, and the impacts of policy on disabled people according to their class, gender, age and ethnicity are explored.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333724275
• ISBN13: 9780333724279
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"