SUBJECT

Title

People Living with Disabilities

Type of instruction

practical

Level

master

Part of degree program
Credits

5

Recommended in

Semesters 3-4

Typically offered in

Autumn/Spring semester

Course description

Topics for discussion: models of disability, historical aspects of disability, deinstitutionalization in the USA and in the Nordic countries, disability in Central East Europe before and after 1989, disability and human rights (legal capacity, right to vote, involuntary treatment, parenting), medicalization of the society.

Readings

  • Dan Goodly (2011): Disability Studies. An Interdisciplinary Introduction. London: SAGE.
  • Tom Shakespeare (2006): Disability Rights and Wrongs. London – New York: Routledge.
  • Lennard J. Davis (ed. 2013): The Disability Studies Reader. London – New York: Routledge.