ISBN:
9780415179027
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (322 p)
Series Statement:
Critical Geographies
Parallel Title:
Print version Mind and Body Spaces : Geographies of Illness, Impairment and Disability
DDC:
306.461
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
〈I〉Mind and Body Spaces〈/I〉 highlights new international research from Britain, USA, Canada and Australia on bodily impairment, mental health and disabling social worlds
Description / Table of Contents:
Mind and Body Spaces Geographies of illness, impairment and disability; 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
Description / Table of Contents:
8 Autobiographical Notes on Chronic Illness9 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
Description / Table of Contents:
15 Body Politics: Disabled Women's Activism in Canada and BeyondIndex
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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