This title offers the first comprehensive, book-length analysis of disability through the lens of Science and Technology Studies (STS). Relevant to a broad spectrum of practicing social service workers, the book will also be essential reading in the fields of disability studies, sociology of the body/senses, medical sociology and STS.

Michael Schillmeier is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich.

Introduction: Rethinking Disability: Revisiting the Social Part 1: 'The Social' in Question: Rethinking Modern Di/visions 1. The Social and the Religion of Modernity 2. Othering Blindness in the Light of Vision and Di/vision Part 2: In Medias Res 3. A Dis/ability Manifesto Part 3: Dis/abling Practices 4. Dis/abling Spaces of Calculation 5. Time-Spaces of In/dependence and Dis/ability 6. From Exclusive Perspectives to Inclusive Differences 7. Concluding Remarks