controversial debates and psychosocial perspectives /
Deborah Marks
xiv, 217 pages ;
22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-209) and index
1. Interdisciplinary studies, fragmented identities and psychic investments -- 2. Valuing lives -- 3. Medicine and its allied professions -- 4. The social construction of disability -- 5. Dynamics of care and control: meeting social and psychic needs -- 6. Causes, complexity and process of categorising 'impairment' -- 7. Does language disable people? -- 8. Investments in images -- Closing comments: interdisciplinary connections, action and identity