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 | The Politics of Disablement: A Sociological Approach (Critical Texts in Social Work and the Welfare State) by Michael Oliver, Peter Leonard Paperback, 152 Pages, Published 1990 ISBN-10: 0-333-43293-2 / 0333432932 ISBN-13: 978-0-333-43293-8 / 9780333432938 This work discusses whether the dominant perceptions of disability in industrial society, as an individual and as a medical problem, are universal. Using cross-cultural evidence, the author links the roots of individualization and medicalization to the rise of capitalism and considers alternative pe | |