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Disability Studies

Disability Studies Keywords (Search Words)

Your keyword search will pull results based on the content of your source and the search terms assigned by the author/ publisher and the Library of Congress Classification system.

 Here are examples of some library search terms:

  • Disability, Disability Studies, Sociology of Disability, Critical Disability Studies
  • People with Disabilities, persons with disabilities 
  • Deafblind, visual disabilities, hearing impaired, hearing disabilities

PLUS words like: 

Ableism

Anti-Oppressive Practice

Antipsychiatry

Intersectionality

Crip Theory

Mad identity/pride/community etc……

Identity Politics

Body

           

Social constructionism

Sanism

Consumer/survivor

Ex-patient

Service user (common term in the UK)

Recovery discourse

Mentalism

Try searching with your keywords in the search box above.