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20th November 2023

DISABILITY AND TECHNOLOGY: KEY PAPERS FROM DISABILITY & SOCIETY

DISABILITY AND TECHNOLOGY: KEY PAPERS FROM DISABILITY & SOCIETY

Alan Roulstone, Alison Sheldon and Jennifer Harris, eds.

Routledge

2017

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This edited collection brings together keynote articles from the journal Disability & Society to provide a comprehensive and though-provoking exploration of the place of technology in disabled people’s lives, documenting and analysing the growing impact of technology on disability and society over recent decades. The authors explore theoretical, empirical and moral dilemmas that arise with the changing relationship between technological change and the lives, aspirations and possibilities of disabled people. The volume is organised into three parts which consider early foundational work connecting disability and technology; key empirical studies related to the optimum use of technologies for independence and inclusion; and new moral and social dynamics thrown up by technological developments for disabled people’s lives.

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