Description: Disability, Society and Assistive Technology, Paperback by Ravneberg, Bodil; Söderström, Sylvia, ISBN 0367143046, ISBN-13 9780367143046, Brand New, Free shipping in the US The provision of assistive technology is an important individual and collective service of the welfare state. The state plays a significant role towards linking users and products, and the matching of devices and users is both a science and an art. However, many people feel it is stigmatising to use individually designed assistive technologies as they often, in a subtle way, convey discriminating barriers in society. The major challenges of assistive technology are thus to reduce social exclusion and marginalisation and, importantly, to reduce individual risks and societal costs related to non-use due to deficiencies in usability, aesthetics and design of the technologies. This groundbreaking book discusses the relationships among society, disability and technology by using different empirical examples (., school, everyday life) to show why the combination of disability studies and STS-studies (science, technology and society) is a fruitful approach to understanding and meeting these challenges. Th explores the significance of the technologies for users, society and the field; identifies challenges to designing, adopting and using assistive technologies; and points at theoretical challenges in research as well as professional challenges in assistive technology service provision. Th also scrutinises the role of assistive technology devices, as well as the organisational structure of the assistive technology market, in relation to disabled people’s lives. This book will be valuable reading for students, academics, teachers and social educators interested in Disability Studies, STS Studies, Product Design, Sociology, Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy, as well as engineers working in the field of assistive technology.
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Book Title: Disability, Society and Assistive Technology
Number of Pages: 114 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Disability, Society and Assistive Technology
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Year: 2019
Item Height: 0.3 in
Subject: People with Disabilities, Sociology / General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Subject Area: Social Science
Author: Bodil Ravneberg, Sylvia Söderström
Item Length: 9.2 in
Series: Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
