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" Mind and body spaces "
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BL
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596653
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b425872
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Mind and body spaces : geographies of illness, impairment and disability
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| Series Statement
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Critical geographies ;; 1
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1 online resource (xii, 307 pages) :: illustrations
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0415179025
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9780415179027
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0415179033
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9780415179034
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: 9780203979662
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: 0203979664
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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1. New geographies of illness, impairment and disability / Hester Parr and Ruth Butler -- 2. The body, disability and Le Corbusier's conception of the radiant environment / Rob Imrie -- 3. The moral topography of intemperance / Michael L. Dorn -- 4. Rhetoric and place in the 'mental deficiency' asylum / Deborah Carter Park and John Radford -- 5. Can technology overcome the disabling city? / Brendan Glesson -- 6. Body troubles: women, the workplace and negotiations of a disabled identity / Isabel Dyck -- 7. Workspaces: refiguring the disability -- employment debate / Edward Hall -- 8. Autobiographical notes on chronic illness / Pamela Moss -- 9. What it means to be a man: the body, masculinities, disability / Gill Valentine -- 10. Bodies and psychiatric medicine: interpreting different geographies of mental health / Hester Parr -- 11. Double the trouble or twice the fun? Disabled bodies in the gay community / Ruth Butler -- 12. Without these walls: a geography of mental ill-health in a rural environment / Christine Milligan -- 13. Accommodating difference: social justice, disability and the design of affordable housing / Flora Gathorne-Hardy -- 14. 'Caught in the Cinderella trap': narratives of disabled parents and young carers / Jane Stables and Fiona Smith -- 15. Body politics: disabled women's activism in Canada and beyond / Vera Chouinard
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| Abstract
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This text highlights international research from Britain, USA, Canada and Australia on bodily impairment, mental health and disabling social worlds
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People with disabilities
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Disability studies
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Sociology of disability
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Handicapped
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| Dewey Classification
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306.461362.4
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HV1568.M58 1999HV1568.M58 1999eb
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Butler, Ruth
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Parr, Hester
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