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'This lively, well-written book deserves a wide audience of students, academics, and professionals because it advances disability studies to the next level and is a reflection of the maturing scholarship of the discipline. ... Summing Up: Recommended. All academic levels/libraries.' - P.A. Murphy, University of Toledo, in CHOICE, March 2015 Changing Social Attitudes toward Disability is a fascinating edited volume with contributions from 15 authors, each presenting a well-written and thought-provoking insight into their academic world. The book's greatest strength is giving an academic reader an opportunity to gain flashes of light and insights from multiple perspectives, all of which are relevant to the task of changing social attitudes toward disability. - Anne Collis, Barod Community Interest Company and School of Social Science, Bangor University, Bangor, UK

'This lively, well-written book deserves a wide audience of students, academics, and professionals because it advances disability studies to the next level and is a reflection of the maturing scholarship of the discipline. ... Summing Up: Recommended. All academic levels/libraries.' - P.A. Murphy, University of Toledo, in CHOICE, March 2015

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David Bolt is Director of the Centre for Culture & Disability Studies, Liverpool Hope University, UK. He is a co-editor of the book series Literary Disability Studies, founder of the International Network of Literary & Cultural Disability Scholars and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies. He is also co-editor of the book The Madwoman and the Blindman (The Ohio State University Press) and author of The Metanarrative of Blindness (University of Michigan Press). Dr Bolt is an editorial board member of both Disability & Society and the Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness.

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