Disability, society, and the individual

"Readers gain valuable insight into definitions of disability, including the effects of categorization and the reasons why there are more disabilities than ever before; medical, environmental, and functional models of disability; issues related to the onset and diagnosis of disability; sources of societal prejudice, discrimination, and stigma; the effects and experience of prejudice and discrimination; individual responses to disability and the impact of the disability's onset, course, severity, visibility, associated chronic pain, and amount of stigma; and much more!" "With discussion questions, learning activities, suggested readings, and first-person accounts, this book is ideal for use as a course text."--BOOK JACKET.