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Elsevier Health Sciences Understanding Disability: A Guide for Health Professionals 1e by Sally French John Swain
This book examines disability in an accessible and interactive style as it relates to healthcare policy and practice. It is aimed at physiotherapists and occupational therapists both sutdents and practitioners but will also be useful to all healthcare workers including nurses doctors and speech and language therapists.Based on the social rather than the medical model of disabilityViews disability in terms of environmental structural and attitudinal barriers which deny disabled people full participation in societyEngages health professionals in critical reflection on the provision of services to disabled peopleCase studies and activities throughout facilitate understanding of issues presentedshow more