Abstract
Sociologies of disability and illness: contested ideas in disability studies and medical sociology, by Carol Thomas, Basingstoke/New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, 213 pp., £20.99, ISBN: 1-4039-36...
Highlights
The author intends to bring together elements from medical sociology and disability research to develop a new sociology of disability
234 Book review goes more explicitly and extensively into the differences and disagreements between medical sociologists and disability researchers before she concludes with a chapter on how disability research may be developed further as a new sociology of disability
This is a book on the connection between medical sociology and disability research and the possibilities for development of an adequate sociology of disability as seen from a disability researcher’s position
Summary
234 Book review goes more explicitly and extensively into the differences and disagreements between medical sociologists and disability researchers before she concludes with a chapter on how disability research may be developed further as a new sociology of disability. The author intends to bring together elements from medical sociology and disability research to develop a new sociology of disability. She introduces various theoretical perspectives in medical sociology as well as in disability research.
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