A personal validation of the social nature of disability: Different environments, different experiences

Disability and Society

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1027-1031

  Koca Atabey, Müjde ^a,b  

^a IPEK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

different countries; disability experience; hierarchy of environments; physical, social and psychological nature of disability; social model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886379547     PISSN: 09687599     EISSN: 13600508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2013.820535     Document Type: Article

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