Mind and Body Spaces highlights new international research from Britain, USA, Canada and Australia, on bodily impairment, mental health and disabled peoples social worlds. The contributors discuss a variety of current issues including:
* historical conceptions of the body and behaviour
* contemporary political activism
* matters of identity and employment
* accessible housing
* parenthood and child carers
* psychiatric medication use
* masculinity and sexuality
* autobiography
* social exclusion and inclusion.
The contributors are: Hester Parr, Ruth Butler, Rob Imrie, Michael L. Dorn, Deborah Carter Park, John Radford, Brendan Gleeson, Isabel Dyck, Edward Hall, Pamela Moss, Gill Valentine, Christine Milligan, Flora Gathorne-Hardy, Jane Stables, Fiona Smith and Vera Chouinard.
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Mind and Body Spaces
Geographies of Illness, Impairment and Disability
- 320 pages
- English
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eBook - ePub
Mind and Body Spaces
Geographies of Illness, Impairment and Disability
About this book
Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of contributors
- Preface and acknowledgements
- 1 New geographies of illness, impairment and disability
- 2 The body, disability and Le Corbusier’s conception of the radiant environment
- 3 The moral topography of intemperance
- 4 Rhetoric and place in the ‘mental deficiency’ asylum
- 5 Can technology overcome the disabling city?
- 6 Body troubles: women, the workplace and negotiations of a disabled identity
- 7 Workspaces: refiguring the disability-employment debate
- 8 Autobiographical notes on chronic illness
- 9 What it means to be a man: the body, masculinities, disability
- 10 Bodies and psychiatric medicine: interpreting different geographies of mental health
- 11 Double the trouble or twice the fun? Disabled bodies in the gay community
- 12 Without these walls: a geography of mental ill-health in a rural environment
- 13 Accommodating difference: social justice, disability and the design of affordable housing
- 14 ‘Caught in the Cinderella trap’: narratives of disabled parents and young carers
- 15 Body politics: disabled women’s activism in Canada and beyond
- Index
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