Mind and Body Spaces

<p><em>Mind and Body Spaces</em> highlights new international research from Britain, USA, Canada and Australia, on bodily impairment, mental health and disabled peoples social worlds. The contributors discuss a variety of current issues including:<br>* historical conceptions of the body and behaviour<br>* contemporary political activism<br>* matters of identity and employment<br>* accessible housing<br>* parenthood and child carers<br>* psychiatric medication use<br>* masculinity and sexuality<br>* autobiography<br>* social exclusion and inclusion. <br>The contributors are: Hester Parr, Ruth Butler, Rob Imrie, Michael L. Dorn, Deborah Carter Park, John Radford, Brendan Gleeson, Isabel Dyck, Edward Hall, Pamela Moss, Gill Valentine, Christine Milligan, Flora Gathorne-Hardy, Jane Stables, Fiona Smith and Vera Chouinard.</p> 1: New Geographies of Illness, Impairment and Disability; 2: The Body, Disability and Le Corbusier's Conception of the Radiant Environment; 3: The Moral Topography of Intemperance; 4: Rhetoric and Place in the ‘Mental Deficiency' Asylum; 5: Can Technology Overcome the Disabling City?; 6: Body Troubles: Women, the Workplace and Negotiations of a Disabled Identity; 7: Workspaces: Refiguring the Disability-Employment Debate; 8: Autobiographical Notes on Chronic Illness; 9: What it Means to be a Man the Body, Masculinities, Disability; 10: Bodies and Psychiatric Medicine: Interpreting Different Geographies of Mental Health; 11: Double the Trouble or Twice the Fun? Disabled Bodies in the Gay Community; 12: Without these Walls: A Geography of Mental Illhealth in a Rural Environment; 13: Accommodating Difference: Social Justice, Disability and the Design of Affordable Housing; 14: ‘Caught in the Cinderella Trap': Narratives of Disabled Parents and Young Carers; 15: Body Politics: Disabled Women's Activism in Canada and Beyond