Dane szczegółowe książki

Acknowledgements IX

PART ONE THEORETICAL-PERSPECTIVES 1
1. Introduction: Disciplinary Divides and Definitions 3
Sociologies of Disability, Impairment and Chronic Illness 3
Two Disciplines: An Introductory Sketch 6
Book Structure and Limitations 8
Key Concepts: Definitions 10

2. Theories and Traditions in Medical Sociology:
Illness and Disability as Social Deviance 15
Introduction 15
Structural-Functionalism 16
Interpretative Sociology 19
Conflict Theories: Ideas that Challenge
Medicine and Foreground Inequality and Social Conflict 29
Poststructuralist Perspectives 35
A Sociology of Disability … ? 39
Summary: Chronic Illness and Disability as Social Deviance 45

3. Theories and Traditions in Disability Studies:
Disability as Social Oppression 49
Introduction 49
Materialist and Marxist Perspectives 51
Poststructuralist Perspectives in
Disability Studies 63
Theoretical Engagements with Gender,
Difference and Oppression 70
Summary: Disability as Social Oppression 80
PART TWO CONTESTED TERRAIN 83

4. Care and Dependency:
A Disciplinary Clash 85
Introduction 85
'Need', 'Care' and 'Dependency':
Rising Above Everyday Ideas 86
Disciplinary Engagements with Care and Dependency: The Sociology of
Health and Social Care 90
Disciplinary Engagements with Care and
Dependency: Disability Studies 96
Episodes of Debate and Disagreement 102
Summary: Care and Dependency 118

5. The Body: Lost and Found 120
Introduction 120
Disability Studies: The Absent Body? 121
Medical Sociology: Resolutions to the Body Problem 137
Summary and Reflections on
Border Crossings 149

6. Experiencing Disability, Chronic
Illness and Other Impairments 154
Introduction 154
The Experiential: Research in Disability
Studies and Medical Sociology 160
Recent Signs of Disciplinary Change: a Straws in the Wind 170
Summary 176

7. Towards a Sociology of Disability? 178
What of the Future? 181

Notes 183
References 186
Index 205