SUBJECT
Title
People Living with Disabilities
Type of instruction
practical
Level
master
Faculty
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.