Rethinking Disability

<p>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.</p> <p>Introduction: Rethinking Disability: Revisiting the Social <strong>Part 1: ‘The Social’ in Question: Rethinking Modern Di/visions </strong>1. The Social and the Religion of Modernity 2. Othering Blindness in the Light of Vision and Di/vision <strong>Part 2: In Medias Res</strong> 3. A Dis/ability Manifesto <strong>Part 3: Dis/abling Practices </strong>4. Dis/abling Spaces of Calculation 5. Time-Spaces of In/dependence and Dis/ability 6. From Exclusive Perspectives to Inclusive Differences 7. Concluding Remarks </p>