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Disability Politics and Community Care

Disability Politics and Community Care

Priestley, Mark

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General Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 1853026522
ISBN13: 9781853026522
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: Oct 1 1998
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.18
Language: English

Mark Priestley addresses the relationship between the politics of disability and community care policies. Guided by his direct work with representatives of the disabled people's movement, he argues that although the ideas behind social policy and practice have started to reflect values such as participation, integration and equality, the current policy and its implementation often undermine those goals. Community care' still contributes to the view of disabled people as dependent and different, thus reinforcing their social exclusion and marginalisation.

Disability Politics and Community Care encourages health and welfare professionals and policy makers to start working much more closely with disabled people themselves. Priestley argues that involving disabled people in the design and production of their own welfare will break down the disabling boundary between service provider' and user' and will result in the reality of integrated living. He presents practical suggestions for the changes necessary for the proposed reorganisation of service provision which will re-define direct work with disabled people.

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