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Michael Oliver
Researcher at University of Greenwich
Publications - 78
Citations - 12484
Michael Oliver is an academic researcher from University of Greenwich. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medical model of disability & Social model of disability. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 76 publications receiving 11726 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael Oliver include University of Sheffield & University of Leeds.
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Understanding Disability: From Theory to Practice
TL;DR: A wide-ranging collection of essays by Michael Oliver discusses recent and perennial issues - such as the fundamental principles of disability, citizenship and community care, social policy and welfare, education, rehabilitation, and the politics of new social movements.
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The Politics of Disablement
TL;DR: In this article, disability definitions are defined: the politics of meaning, the Cultural Production of Impairment and Disability, Disability and the Rise of Capitalism, the Ideological Construction of Disability, the Structuring of Disabled Identities, and the Social Construction of the Disability Problem.
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Changing the Social Relations of Research Production
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that research on disability has had little influence on policy and made no contribution to improving the lives of disabled people, and that up to now the process of research production has been alienating both for disabled people and for researchers themselves.
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The social model of disability: thirty years on
TL;DR: In this article, the authors restate their view of what the social model was and what I see as its potential for improving the lives of disabled people and focus on the unfortunate criticisms of it and the disastrous implications these have had for disabled people.
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Social Work with Disabled People
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors set the scene for social work and disability: old and new directions, Impairment, disability and research, Relationships and families, Independent Living and Personal Assistance, Vulnerability and Safeguarding.