This book traces the psychological journey of accident survivors with locomotor disability, as they move from processes of suffering to healing. It provides a holistic understanding of disability by looking into the embodied understanding of the body as shaped by the socio-political and cultural discourses around impairment.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Note On Terminology to Depict 'Disability'
Acknowledgements
Foreword
1 Locomotor Impairment and Disability: Global and Indian Contexts
2 Methodology: The Challenge of Foregrounding the Silenced Voices
3 Embodied Existence: Attending to Impaired Body and Related Regrets
4 Struggles of Living with a 'Dependent' Identity: Negotiating 'Mobility-related' Difficulties
5 Exclusion of 'Differently Abled' or 'Less-Abled' in the Neoliberal World
6 Experience of Healing Despite Embodied and Stigmatized Existence
7 The Emerging Perspective on Disability
Appendix A
Appendix B: Demographics Form
Bibliography
Index
