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For most of the twentieth century, people with disabilities have been regarded as ‘victims’ of their condition and a ‘burden’ on society. More recently, however, disabled people and their organizations across Europe and North America have challenged conventional explanations for their individual and collective disadvantage, calling for policy measures to change the image and status of disabled people in the Western world. In this new book, Barnes and Mercer provide a concise and accessible introduction to the concept of disability. Drawing on a burgeoning ‘disability studies’ literature from around the world, and from a range of disciplinary perspectives, the authors explore the evolution of this concept and offer a wide-ranging critique of established academic, policy and professional orthodoxies. The book highlights disabled peoples’ exclusion and marginalization in key areas of social activity and participation across different historical and cultural contexts, such as family life and reproduction, education, employment, leisure, cultural imagery and politics. The analysis concentrates on disability as a distinctive form of social oppression similar to that experienced by women, minority ethnic and ‘racial’ groups, and lesbians and gay men. Key issues addressed include: theorizing disability; historical and comparative perspectives; experiencing impairment and disability; professional and policy intervention in the lives of disabled people; disability politics, social policy and citizenship; and disability culture.

Ethics are central to the caring professions. The very idea of a profession stakes a claim on the ethical basis of knowledge and skills. In this book Richard Hugman examines new approaches in ethics and applies these to the practices and organisation of the caring professions. Hugman addresses debates about the relationship between the individual person and social structures, about pluralism and the possibility of universal values, about the challenges created by industrial society and technology, and about the changing social mandate for the caring professions. These debates are considered from the perspectives of liberalism, feminism, ecology, postmodernism and constructivism. Ideas are explained and the implications for professional ethics are explored using illustrative examples from practice to show their relevance for the caring professions.

Over the last thirty years, the field of disability studies has emerged from the political activism of disabled people. In this challenging review of the field, leading disability academic and activist Tom Shakespeare argues that the social model theory has reached a dead end. Drawing on a critical realist perspective, Shakespeare promotes a pluralist, engaged and nuanced approach to disability. Key topics discussed include: dichotomies - the dangerous polarizations of medical model versus social model, impairment versus disability and disabled people versus non-disabled people identity - the drawbacks of the disability movement's emphasis on identity politics bioethics in disability - choices at the beginning and end of life and in the field of genetic and stem cell therapies care and social relationships - questions of intimacy and friendship. This stimulating and accessible book challenges orthodoxies in British disability studies, promoting a new conceptualization of disability and fresh research agenda. It is an invaluable resource for researchers and students in disability studies and sociology, as well as professionals, policy makers and activists.

Düzeltmen Raimundo Silva, üzerinde çalıştığı tarih kitabının bir cümlesini değiştirir. Olumsuzluk takısı eklediği fiil, 1147 yılında gerçekleşen Lizbon Kuşatması’nın tarihini tümüyle altüst eder. Metinde bile isteye yaptığı bu hata, göreve yeni atanan yayın koordinatörü Maria Sara’nın dikkatini çeker. Merakı kamçılanan Sara, düzeltmene alternatif bir tarihsel roman yazmasını önerir. Raimundo Silva sonu belli bu tarihsel olayı bambaşka gözlerle anlatan kurmaca bir metin inşa ederken, yayın koordinatörü Maria Sara’yla başlayan tutkulu ilişkisi roman kahramanlarının öyküsüne yansır. José Saramago’nun kaleminden bir kuşatmanın, kuşatmaya dönüşen bir aşkın hikâyesinin anlatıldığı, Lizbon’un dünüyle bugününün iç içe geçtiği gizemli bir roman. Tarih yazımı, yaratıcılık ve ”tarihin içine yerleştirilmiş öyküler” üzerine derin bir düşünüşün ürünü olan Lizbon Kuşatmasının Tarihi, ilk kez Portekizce özgün metinden yapılan titiz çevirisiyle okurlarla buluşuyor. “Bu başdöndürücü masal, tarihin, dilin ve hayal gücünün sınırlarında gezinen eğlenceli bir haşarılık örneği.”