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Sociologies of disability and illness : contested ideas in disability studies and medical sociology

Chronic Illness and Disability as Social Deviance3 Theories and Traditions in Disability Studies: Disability as Social Oppression; Introduction; Materialist and Marxist Perspectives; Poststructuralist Perspectives in Disability Studies; Theoretical Engagements with Gender, Difference and Oppression; Summary: Disability as Social Oppression; PART TWO: CONTESTED TERRAIN; 4 Care and Dependency: A Disciplinary Clash; Introduction; 'Need', 'Care' and 'Dependency': Rising Above Everyday Ideas; Disciplinary Engagements with Care and Dependency: The Sociology of Health and Social Care

eBook, English, 2007
Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2007