Disability Research Today

<p>Grouped around four central themes – illness and impairment disabling processes care and control and communication and representations – this collection offers a fresh perspective on disability research showing how theory and data can be brought together in new and exciting ways.</p><p><i>Disability Research Today</i> starts by showing how engaging with issues around illness and impairment is vital to a multidisciplinary understanding of disability as a social process. The second section explores factors that affect disabled people such as homelessness violence and unemployment. The third section turns to social care and how disabled people are prevented from living with independence and dignity. Finally the last section examines how different imagery and technology impacts our understandings of disability and deafness.</p><p>Showcasing empirical work from a range of countries including Japan Norway Italy Australia India the UK Turkey Finland and Iceland this collection shows how disability studies can be simultaneously sophisticated accessible and policy-relevant. <i>Disability Research Today</i> is suitable for students and researchers in disability studies sociology social policy social work nursing and health studies.</p>