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DISABLED PEOPLE: THE PROBLEMS OF IDENTITY
DISABLED PEOPLE: THE PROBLEMS OF IDENTITY

Author(s): Anelė Vosyliūtė
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Kauno Technologijos Universitetas
Keywords: disability; positive changes in the situation of disabled; struggle for rights; identity problems; body of disabled.

Summary/Abstract: In the paper some aspects of the way of life of infirm (disabled) people, their situation, state, meanings, relations with others, body problems are analysed. The author pays attention to the society health service, social medicine, the state of the past and modern patients; the phenomenological approach, the life history method are used. In the paper is stressed that now, in the new type of risk society conditions, disability is widely spread. The mode of life and social environment of the modern disabled people are determined by the situation of democratic civic society and more human as in old time principles of society.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 118-121
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: English