Disability and Technology

Name: Disability and Technology
Author: Alan Roulstone

An Interdisciplinary and International Approach

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Gebonden, 224 blz. | Engels

Palgrave Macmillan UK | e druk, 2016

ISBN13: 9781137450418

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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.

Specificaties

ISBN13:9781137450418

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:gebonden

Aantal pagina's:224

Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK

Hoofdrubriek:Mens en maatschappij

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<div>Introduction.- Part I. Disability and Technology in Context.- Chapter 1. Between Bodies, Artefacts and Theories: Theorising Disability, Theorising Technology.- Chapter 2. I Am Not Sure We've Been Introduced? Disability Meets Technology.- Part II. Understanding Disability, Understanding Technology.- Chapter 3. Employing Technology to Good Effect: Technology, Disability and the 'Palace'.- Chapter 4. Disability, Ageing and Technology: They Think That By Throwing a Pendant Alarm at You It Equals Independence.- Chapter 5. The Wheelchair: Enabled or Disabled? Houston, We've Had a Problem.- Chapter 6. To Augment or Not Augment? That is the Question: From Cochlear Implants to Exoskeletons.- Final Reflection.</div>