| Cover title |
Disability & technology |
| Contents |
An introduction and overview -- Part I. Disability and Technology in Context -- Between Bodies, Artefacts and Theories: Theorising Disability, Theorising Technology -- I Am Not Sure We've Been Introduced? Disability Meets Technology -- Part II. Understanding Disability, Understanding Technology -- Employing Technology to Good Effect: Technology, Disability and the "Palace" of Paid Work -- Disability, Ageing and Technology: They Think That Throwing a Pendant Alarm at You It Equals Independence -- The Wheelchair: Enabled or Disabled? Houston, We've Had a Problem -- To Augment or Not Augment? That is the Question -- Final Reflection. |
| Abstract |
This book brings together formally disparate literatures and debates on disability and technology in a way that captures the complex interplay between the two. Drawing on disability studies, technology studies and clinical studies, the book argues that interdisciplinary insights together provide a more nuanced and less stylized picture of the benefits and barriers in disability and technology. Drawing on a breadth of empirical studies from across the globe, a picture emerges of the complex and multi-directional interplay of technology and disability. Technology is neither inherently enabling or disabling but fundamentally shaped by the social dynamics that shape their design, use and impact. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-242) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2016938694 |
| ISBN | 113745041X |
| ISBN | 9781137450418 |
| ISBN | (eBook) |
| ISBN | (eBook) |
