Disability, Society and Assistive Technology - Couverture rigide

Livre 14 sur 45: Interdisciplinary Disability Studies

Ravneberg, Bodil; Söderström, Sylvia

 
9781472447180: Disability, Society and Assistive Technology
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1472447182 ISBN 13 : 9781472447180
Editeur : Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

The provision of assistive technology is an important individual and collective service of the welfare state. The state plays a significant role towards linking users and products and the matching of devices and users is both a science and an art. However, many people feel it is stigmatising to use individually designed assistive technologies as they often, in a subtle way, convey discriminating barriers in society. A major challenge of assistive technology is thus to reduce social exclusion, marginalization and importantly, to reduce individual risks and societal costs related to non-use, due to deficiencies in usability, aesthetics and design of the technologies.

This groundbreaking book discusses the relationship between society, disability and technology by using different empirical examples (e.g. school, everyday life) to show why disability studies and STS-studies (society, technology and science) are a fruitful approach to understanding and meeting these challenges by exploring the significance of the technologies for users, society and the field, and by identifying challenges, theoretically, empirically and practically. This book scrutinises the role of AT devices, as well as the organisational structure of the AT market, in relation to disabled people's lives.

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À propos de l'auteur

Bodil Ravneberg is a Professor at Bergen University College, Norway.

Sylvia Söderström is a Professor at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Science at The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1472447182
ISBN 13 
9781472447180
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
120
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0367143046 ISBN 13 :  9780367143046
Editeur : Routledge, 2019
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