This book provides a valuable route map to the development of thinking in disability studies over the last 18 years with over twenty essential articles from the journal of Disability and Society.

Len Barton is Professor of Inclusive Education at the Institute of Education, University of London. He is Editor of British Journal of Sociology of Education, Disability and Society and International Studies in the Sociology of Education.

Disability Studies. Introduction Colin Barnes and Carol Thomas. 'Social Policy and Disability' M. Oliver (1986). 'The Concept of Oppression and the Development of a Social Theory of Disability' P. Abberley (1987). 'Women with Disabilities: Two Handicaps Plus' W. J. Hanna and B. Rogovsky (1991). 'Disabled People's Self-Organisation: A New Social Movement'? T. Shakespeare (1993). 'Eugenics and Disability Discrimination' D. Pfeiffer (1994). 'The Social Model of Disability and the Disappearing Body: Towards a Sociology of Impairment' B. Hughes and K. Paterson (1997). 'Differences, Conflations and Foundations: The Limits to 'Accurate' Theoretical Representation of Disabled People's Experience'? M. Corker (1999). 'Is there a Disability Culture? A Syncretisation of Three Possible World Views' S. Peters (2000). Policy. Introduction Sally French and John Swain. 'Personal Trouble or Public Issue? Towards a Model of Policy for People with Physical and Mental Disabilities' A. Borsay (1986) . 'Disability and Afghan Reconstructions: Some Policy Issues' M. Miles (1990). 'Disabled People, Service Users, User Involvement and Representation' P. Beresford and J. Campbell (1994). 'Disabled People in a Newly Industrialising Economy: Opportunities and Challenges in Malaysia' D. Jayasooria, B. Krishnan and O. Godfrey (1997). 'The Disability Rights Movement in Japan: Past, Present and Future' R. Hayashi and M. Okuhira (2001). 'What Disability Civil Rights Cannot Do: Employment and Political Economy' M. Russell (2002). Research Issues. Introduction Michele Moore and Len Barton. 'Listening to Disabled People: The Problem of Voice and Authority in Robert. B. Edgerton's The Cloak of Competence' D.A. Gerber (1990). 'Changing the Social Relations of Research Production? M. Oliver (1992). 'Personal and Political: A Feminist Perspective on Researching Physical Disability' J. Morris (1992). 'Race and Disability: Just a Double Oppression? O.W. Stuart (1992). 'Disability Studies as Ethnographic Research and Text: Research Strategies and Roles for Promoting Social Change'? J.M. Davis (2000). 'Normalisation, Emancipatory Research and Inclusive Research in Learning Disability' J.Walmsley (2001). 'What a Difference a Decade Makes: Reflections on Doing 'Emancipatory Disability Research' C. Barnes (2003)