Table of Contents

1: New Geographies of Illness, Impairment and Disability; 2: The Body, Disability and Le Corbusier's Conception of the Radiant Environment; 3: The Moral Topography of Intemperance; 4: Rhetoric and Place in the ‘Mental Deficiency' Asylum; 5: Can Technology Overcome the Disabling City?; 6: Body Troubles: Women, the Workplace and Negotiations of a Disabled Identity; 7: Workspaces: Refiguring the Disability-Employment Debate; 8: Autobiographical Notes on Chronic Illness; 9: What it Means to be a Man the Body, Masculinities, Disability; 10: Bodies and Psychiatric Medicine: Interpreting Different Geographies of Mental Health; 11: Double the Trouble or Twice the Fun? Disabled Bodies in the Gay Community; 12: Without these Walls: A Geography of Mental Illhealth in a Rural Environment; 13: Accommodating Difference: Social Justice, Disability and the Design of Affordable Housing; 14: ‘Caught in the Cinderella Trap': Narratives of Disabled Parents and Young Carers; 15: Body Politics: Disabled Women's Activism in Canada and Beyond

About the Author

Ruth Butler, Hester Parr

Reviews

This book provides a significant contribution to the ever widening horizons of: disability and health geographies, (post)-medical geographies and geographies of mental ill health.Overall the book is very thought provoking and may herald the future direction for disability geographies. It will provide stimulating reading for both students and academics with an interest in this subject area - Louise Holt, University of Loughborough, 2002

In my opinion, this book is an extremely valuable addition to human geography, and the wider social sciences. - Louise Holt, University of Loughborough, 2002