ABSTRACT

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.

part |2 pages

Part I ‘The Social’ in Question: Rethinking Modern Di/visions

part |2 pages

Part II In Medias Res

chapter 3|24 pages

A Dis/ability Manifesto

part |2 pages

Part III Dis/abling Practices

chapter 4|28 pages

Dis/abling Spaces of Calculation

chapter 7|3 pages

Concluding Remarks