Introduction: The Formation of Disability Studies - Gary L Albrecht, Katherine D Seelman, and Michael Bury
PART ONE: THE SHAPING OF DISABILITIES STUDIES AS A FIELD
An Institutional History of Disability - David L Braddock and Susan Parish
Counting Disability - Glenn T Fujiura and Violet Rutkowski-Kmitta
Disability Definitions, Models, Classification Schemes and Applications - Barbara Altman
Theorizing Disability - Gareth Williams
Methodological Paradigms That Shape Disability Research - Scott Campbell Brown
Disability - Patrick Fougeyrollas and Line Beauregard
An Interactive Person-Environment Social Creation
Representation and Its Discontents - David T Mitchell and Sharon L Snyder
The Uneasy Home of Disability in Literature and Film
Philosophical Issues in the Definition and Social Response to Disability - David Wasserman
Disability and the Sociology of the Body - Bryan S Turner
Intellectual Disabilities- Quo Vadis? - Trevor R Parmenter
Disability, Bioethics and Human Rights - Adrienne Asch
Disability Studies and Electronic Networking - Ellen Liberti Blasiotti, John D Westbrook, and Iwao Kobayashi
PART TWO: EXPERIENCING DISABILITY
Divided Understandings - Carol Gill
The Social Experience of Disability
Mapping the Family - Philip M Ferguson
Disability Studies and the Exploration of Parental Response to Disability
Disability and Community - Michael P Kelly
A Sociological Approach
Welfare States and Disabled People - Robert F Drake
Advocacy and Political Action - Sharon Barnartt, Kay Schrinerm and Richard Scotch
Health Care Professionals and Their Attitudes Towards, and Decisions Affecting Disabled People - Ian Basnett
The Role of Social Networks in the Lives of Persons with Disabilities - Bernice A Pescosolido
Inclusion/Exclusion - Jean-François Ravaud and Henri-Jacques Stiker
An Analysis of Historical and Cultural Meanings
PART THREE: DISABILITY IN CONTEXT
Disability Culture - Colin Barnes and Geoff Mercer
Assimilation or Inclusion?
Identity Politics, Disability and Culture - Lennard J Davis
Making the Difference - Tom Shakespeare and Nick Watson
Disability, Politics, and Recognition
Disability Human Rights, Law and Policy - Jerome E Bickenbach
The Political Economy of the Disability Marketplace - Gary L Albrecht and Michael Bury
Disability and Health Policy - Gerben DeJong and Ian Basnett
The Role of Markets in the Delivery of Health Services
Disability Benefit Programs - Bonnie O¿Day and Monroe Berkowitz
Can We Improve the Return to Work Record?
A Disability Studies Perspective on Employment Issues and Policies for Disabled People - Kay Schriner
An International View
Science and Technology Policy - Katherine D Seelman
Is Disability a Missing Factor?
Disability, Education and Inclusion - Len Barton and Felicity Armstrong
Cross-Cultural Issues and Dilemmas
Support Systems - Simi Litvak and Alexandra Enders
The Interface Between Individuals and Environments
The Relationship between Disabled People and Health and Welfare Professionals - Sally French and John Swain
Public Health Trends in Disability - Don Lollar
Past, Present, and Future
Disability in the Developing World - Benedicte Ingstad