Marilyn Dupré’s praxis chapter advances social work’s agenda of engaging with critical disability studies by proposing a social work praxis that centralizes disability as a …
Commentary on previous chapters and questions for critical thought. The author suggests that a critical disability approach to social work must respect the autonomy and self-determination of …
Brenda A. LeFrançois and Christine Peddle introduce major theoretical, community and activist foundations of the field of mad studies. LeFrançois and Peddle argue that mad studies …
Ameil Joseph makes a distinction between the practices of self-identification enacted by mad people and the technologies of differentiation imposed on them by mental health systems and by the …