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Mind and body spaces : geographies of illness, impairment, and disability /

Title:
Mind and body spaces : geographies of illness, impairment, and disability /
Published:
London ; New York : 1999.
Format:
Book
Institution:
Wentworth Institute of Technology
Contents:
1. New geographies of illness, impairment and disability / Hester Parr and Ruth Butler -- 2. The body, disability and Le Corbusier's conception of the radiant environment / Rob Imrie -- 3. The moral topography of intemperance / Michael L. Dorn -- 4. Rhetoric and place in the 'mental deficiency' asylum / Deborah Carter Park and John Radford -- 5. Can technology overcome the disabling city? / Brendan Glesson -- 6. Body troubles: women, the workplace and negotiations of a disabled identity / Isabel Dyck -- 7. Workspaces: refiguring the disability -- employment debate / Edward Hall -- 8. Autobiographical notes on chronic illness / Pamela Moss -- 9. What it means to be a man: the body, masculinities, disability / Gill Valentine -- 10. Bodies and psychiatric medicine: interpreting different geographies of mental health / Hester Parr -- 11. Double the trouble or twice the fun? Disabled bodies in the gay community / Ruth Butler -- 12. Without these walls: a geography of mental ill-health in a rural environment / Christine Milligan -- 13. Accommodating difference: social justice, disability and the design of affordable housing / Flora Gathorne-Hardy -- 14. 'Caught in the Cinderella trap': narratives of disabled parents and young carers / Jane Stables and Fiona Smith -- 15. Body politics: disabled women's activism in Canada and beyond / Vera Chouinard.
Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
Wentworth Stacks--Upper Level
362.4 .M56 1999 – Available