What is it about?
Disability is always grounded in bodies. Whether an impairment is considered physical, sensory, mental, or emotional, disability is labelled through what bodies do—and fail to do. Disability is also always grounded in communication, negotiated and made meaningful in the world of social relations. This handbook brings together two highly interdisciplinary intellectual pursuits, disability studies and communication studies, to explore how we human beings make sense of disability as an identity and human phenomenon. Disability and communication are expansive, ever-changing, and highly contextual. This chapter lays out the fundamental conceptions of the book and provides an outline of its sections and chapters.
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Why is it important?
Sets out the editorial framework for the volume and introduces each chapter.
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This is the first handbook of its type to be published since 2000.
Dr Michael S Jeffress
Medical University of the Americas
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-14447-9_1.
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