A Quarter-century of Normalization and Social Role Valorization
A Quarter-century of Normalization and Social Role Valorization

Author: Robert John Flynn

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 586

ISBN-13: 0776604856

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During the late 1960s, Normalization and Social Role Valorization (SRV) enabled the widespread emergence of community residential options and then provided the philosophical climate within which educational integration, supported employment, and community participation were able to take firm root. This book is unique in tracing the evolution and impact of Normalization and SRV over the last quarter-century, with many of the chapter authors personally involved in a still-evolving international movement. Published in English.

Normalisation
Normalisation

Author: Hilary Brown

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-08-06

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1134926693

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Normalisation, the theoretical framework that underpins the movement of services for people with disabilities from long stay hospitals, has recently become the focus of much academic and professional attention. As the community care debate has moved into the public arena, it has attracted a certain amount of criticism, acknowledging the political and philosophical conflicts that surround it. Normalisation: A Reader for the Nineties provides a much needed, informed appraisal of this controversial practice and combines various perspectives on the subject, including applied behavioural analysis, social policy and psychodynamic approaches. Thus it explores the discrepancies between the ideal and the reality and extends the debate by drawing comparisons, with other political and social ideologies.

The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon
The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon

Author: Leonard Lawlor

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-04-21

Total Pages: 1318

ISBN-13: 1139867067

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The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon is a reference tool that provides clear and incisive definitions and descriptions of all of Foucault's major terms and influences, including history, knowledge, language, philosophy and power. It also includes entries on philosophers about whom Foucault wrote and who influenced Foucault's thinking, such as Deleuze, Heidegger, Nietzsche and Canguilhem. The entries are written by scholars of Foucault from a variety of disciplines such as philosophy, gender studies, political science and history. Together, they shed light on concepts key to Foucault and to ongoing discussions of his work today.

Leadership and Change in Human Services
Leadership and Change in Human Services

Author: Wolf Wolfensberger

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0415305624

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David Race introduces us to Wolfensberger's key ideas concerning devaluation, vulnerability, normalization, social role valorization and advocacy, which are explored through a series of extracts, with commentary, from his published work.

The End of Normal
The End of Normal

Author: Lennard Davis

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2014-01-03

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 0472052020

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In an era when human lives are increasingly measured and weighed in relation to the medical and scientific, notions of what is “normal” have changed drastically. While it is no longer useful to think of a person’s particular race, gender, sexual orientation, or choice as “normal,” the concept continues to haunt us in other ways. In The End of Normal, Lennard J. Davis explores changing perceptions of body and mind in social, cultural, and political life as the twenty-first century unfolds. The book’s provocative essays mine the worlds of advertising, film, literature, and the visual arts as they consider issues of disability, depression, physician-assisted suicide, medical diagnosis, transgender, and other identities. Using contemporary discussions of biopower and biopolitics, Davis focuses on social and cultural production—particularly on issues around the different body and mind. The End of Normal seeks an analysis that works comfortably in the intersection between science, medicine, technology, and culture, and will appeal to those interested in cultural studies, bodily practices, disability, science and medical studies, feminist materialism, psychiatry, and psychology.