Exploring the Divide: Illness and Disability (Book).

Abstract

Based on a conference held Weetwood Hall, Leeds, 19-21st April 1995. Introduction: exploring the divide / Colin Barnes and Geof Mercer -- Defining and researching disability : challenges and responses / Mike Bury -- Defining impairment and disability : issues at staek / Mike Oliver -- Including all of our lives : renewing the social model of disability / Liz Crow -- Negative attributes of self : radical surgery and the inner and outer lifeworld / Michael P. Kelly -- Disability, identity, difference / Tom Shakespeare -- Identity crisis : mental health user groups and the 'problem' of identity / Marian Barnes and Polly Shardlow -- Sick-but-fit or fit-but-sick? Ambiguity and identity at the workplace / Ruth Pinder -- General practitioners' role in shaping disabled women's lives / Nasa Begum -- Breaking down barriers / Judith Emanuel and David Ackroyd -- Representing disability : some questions of phenomenology and politics / Gareth Williams.