This work discusses whether the dominant perceptions of disability in industrial society, as an individual and as a medical problem, is universal. Using cross-cultural evidence, the author links the roots of individualization and medicalization to the rise of capitalism and considers alternative perceptions of disability and their implications for both political activity and social policy.
- ISBN10 0333432924
- ISBN13 9780333432921
- Publish Date 17 August 1990 (first published 1 August 1990)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 September 1993
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 166
- Language English