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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Alan Roulstone (University of Leeds, UK) , Alison Sheldon (University of Leeds, UK) , Jennifer Harris (University of Dundee, UK) , Jennifer Harris (University of Dundee, UK)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 17.40cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 24.60cm Weight: 0.498kg ISBN: 9781138932180ISBN 10: 1138932183 Pages: 180 Publication Date: 07 December 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsSeries Editor’s Preface Part I: Framing the relationship between disability and technology 1. Communications technology - empowerment or disempowerment? 2. In whose service? Technology, care and disabled people: The case for a disability politics perspective 3. Information and communication technologies and the opportunities of disabled persons in the Swedish labour market 4. Enacting disability: how can science and technology studies inform disability studies? Part II: Empirical studies of technology and reduction of disabling barriers 5. The use, role and application of advanced technology in the lives of disabled people in the UK 6. A common open space or a digital divide? A social model perspective on the online disability community in China 7. Increases in wheelchair use and perceptions of disablement 8. Back to the future, disability and the digital divide Part III: Moral and social tensions between disability and technology 9. Disability, identity and disclosure in the online dating environment 10. ‘I know, I can, I will try’: Youths and adults with intellectual disabilities in Sweden using information and communication technology in their everyday life 11. Implants and ethnocide: Learning from the cochlear implant controversy 12. Cyborg anxiety: Oscar Pistorius and the boundaries of what it means to be human ConclusionReviewsAuthor InformationMichele Moore is Professor of Inclusive Education at Northumbria University, UK, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Disability & Society. Alan Roulstone is Professor of Disability Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. Alison Sheldon is a Teaching Fellow in Disability Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. Jennifer Harris is Professor Emeritus in Social Work at the University of Dundee, UK. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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