The Disability Business: Rehabilitation in America
Author:   Gary L. Albrecht
Publisher:   SAGE Publications Inc
Volume:   v. 190
ISBN:  

9780803936317


Pages:   336
Publication Date:   13 July 1992
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Gary L. Albrecht
Publisher:   SAGE Publications Inc
Imprint:   SAGE Publications Inc
Volume:   v. 190
Dimensions:   Width: 13.90cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.50cm
Weight:   0.450kg
ISBN:  

9780803936317


ISBN 10:   0803936311
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   13 July 1992
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained

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Prologue From Personal Experiences to Theory and Policy PART ONE: DISABILITY AS A SOCIAL PHENOMENON The Transformation of Disability into a Commodity The Production and Distribution of Disability in Society The Social Meaning of Impairment and Interpretation of Disability PART TWO: SOCIAL RESPONSES TO DISABILITY The Law and Politics of Rehabilitation The Rehabilitation Industry Rehabilitation Professionals The Marketing of Rehabilitation Goods and Services The Rehabilitation Process PART THREE: FROM SOCIAL THEORY TO SOCIAL POLICY The Consumer Social Policies for the Disabled

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Gary L. Albrecht is a Fellow of the Royal Belgian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Extraordinary Guest Professor of Social Sciences, University of Leuven, Belgium and Professor Emeritus of Public Health and of Disability and Human Development at the University of Illinois at Chicago.  After receiving his Ph.D. from Emory University, he has served on the faculties of Emory University in Sociology and Psychiatry, Northwestern University in Sociology, Rehabilitation Medicine and the Kellogg School of Management and the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in the School of Public Health and in the Department of Disability and Human Development.  Since retiring from the UIC in 2005, he divides his time between Europe and the United States.  He works in Boulder, Colorado and Brussels, Belgium.  He was recently a Scholar in Residence at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (MSH) in Paris, a visiting Fellow at Nuffield College, the University of Oxford and a Fellow in Residence at the Royal Flemish Academy of Science and Arts, Brussels

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