New narratives of disability : constructions, clashes, and controversies /

• Other Authors: Green, Sara E. (Editor), Loseke, Donileen R. (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019.
• Series: Research in social science and disability ; v. 11.
• Subjects: People with disabilities > Social life and customs.; People with disabilities > Research.; Social Science, People with Disabilities.; Disability: social aspects.

This volume explores questions about narrative frameworks in disability research. Narrative is a omnipresent meaning-producing communication form in social life that is both cultural and personal. Public understandings of disability tend to follow a medical storyline in which disability is a persona...