Social Work: Disabled People and Disabling Environments

by Michael Oliver (Editor)

Social Work Discusses the issue of disability within a social context, re-defining disability as a social rather than an individual problem and exploring the implications that this has for the provision of services and for social work practice. Full description

Genres: Social Work

208 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1991

About the author

Michael J. Oliver, born 3 Feb. 1945, is Professor of Disability Studies, at the University of Greenwich.

Formerly he taught in the School of Education Studies at Thames Polytechnic, in London.

Oliver is a disabled academic and political activist. He is a founding council member of the British Council of Disabled People. To date he holds the only professorship of disability studies in Britain. Oliver has published numerous books on disability issues.