Understanding Disability: A Guide for Health Professionals

by John Swain and Sally French

This book examines disability, in an accessible and interactive style, as it relates to healthcare policy and practice. It is aimed at physiotherapists and occupational therapists, both sutdents and practitioners, but will also be useful to all healthcare workers, including nurses, doctors and speech and language therapists.Based on the social rather than the medical model of disabilityViews disability in terms of environmental, structural and attitudinal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0443101396
• ISBN13: 9780443101397
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.2"