Bob Sapey
Biographic Data
| ID | 4215492 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bob Sapey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bob |
| FAMILY NAME | Sapey |
| SIGNATURE | SAPEY B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Madness, Distress and the Politics of Disablement
Compounding the trauma
For more than a hundred years, voice hearing has been treated as a symptom of serious mental illnesses with biological origins. Pharmaceutical companies have expanded the range of products targeted at treating these illnesses and the diagnosis of schizophrenia now underpins a multi-billion dollar, world-wide business. Throughout the western world, nation states have vested an authority in psychiatry to compulsorily treat people who meet a set of …
Doctoring the mind
Crazy like us
by Ethan Watters, London, Robinson Publishing, 2011, 256 pp., £9.99 (paperback), ISBN 978‐1‐849‐01577‐6 This book tells four stories about the ways in which the US psychiatric and pharmaceutical in
Anatomy of an epidemic
by Robert Whitaker, New York, Crown Publishing Group (Division of Random House Inc.), 2010, 416 pp., $26.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-30-745241-2 This book is an impressive piece of investigatory jour
La politique du handicap
Cette contribution examine l’importance du modèle social du handicap pour le mouvement des personnes handicapées au Royaume-Uni et comment il a nourri la réflexion sur la politique à l’égard des personnes handicapées. Elle relate les changements introduits dans cette politique depuis 1948 et revient sur l’évolution de la protection sociale, depuis les modes institutionnels mis en place à partir du XIX e siècle jusqu’à la naissance d’une politique…
Older People and Dissatisfaction with Wheelchair Services
Britain has experienced an unprecedented increase in wheelchair use during the past two decades. The authors take a social model approach to disability and report on their study in the north-west of England into the social implications of this increase. Qualitative interviews and a large-scale social survey reveal the circumstances of users and their experiences. Building on their descriptive statistics, the authors use latent class analysis to i…
Out of touch
In autumn 2003 we contracted to undertake a study in two district council areas of ways in which they could meet their Local Public Service Agreement (LPSA) targets in respect of disabled people returning to work. We undertook a literature review of barriers to work, interviewed a number of people involved in working with unemployed people and a number of disabled people in these areas. All the employment organisations we had contact with were wo…
Increases in wheelchair use and perceptions of disablement
Between 1986 and 1995, there appeared to be a 100% increase in the number of wheelchair users in England and Wales. This article reports some of the findings of a study designed to explore the social implications of this increase. Specifically, it examines the various explanations for the increases and concludes that whilst demographic changes or research methodologies are not responsible, the more likely causes are changing prescription practice…
Impairment, Disability, and Loss
Psychological theories of loss and grief, which suggest that people must go through stages such as shock, anger, denial, and despair before finally reaching a recovered stage of acceptance, have often been applied to understanding the experience of disability. However, this has also been firmly rejected within the U.K. disability studies literature, which draws on the experience of disabled people from a critical perspective. The result is not ju…
Disablement in the Informational Age
There is considerable evidence to suggest that at this point in history, we are in the midst of a global economic revolution. There is also a considerable literature to suggest that the industrial revolutions have shaped and constructed the nature of disablement in the twentieth century. This paper examines employment data from the USA and UK on the process of informationalisation, in order to ascertain if it is having a particular impact on the …
Disability Discourse
Disability and Dependency
In this paper we analyse the provision of housing for disabled people in both its historical and ideological contexts. While the recent extension of part M of the Building Regulations to dwellings by the government represents a significant advance towards the inclusion of disabled people, we argue that the shift in funding of public housing from a 'bricks and mortar' subsidy to Housing Benefit potentially creates greater dependency. This amounts …
Truth or Manipulation? The Politics of Government-funded Disability Research
(1998). Truth or Manipulation? The Politics of Government-funded Disability Research. Disability & Society: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 297-300
Social Work Tomorrow
This paper makes use of theoretical ideas that have been developed to understand the impact of new technology on organizations and applies them to its use within social work agencies. These developing theories employ ideas that are familiar to social workers—organization theory, decision making theory, and communication theory. The paper therefore argues that social workers are in a good position to understand and influence the use of computers w…
Disabling Homes
This research was carried out between January and July 1993. The study was an evaluation of housing need of disabled people who were wheelchair users through a process of consumer consultation. It was concerned to find out the extent and nature of that need whilst also testing out consultation through the use of research methods in comparison with a non-consultative approach taken by the local authorities. The nature of need was found to be quali…
Ramps and civil rights
This article reviews the literature on housing and disability from a civil rights perspective. It presents strong evidence that housing cannot be ignored by social workers if they are to be effective in the provision of genuine community care. It argues for an increased involvement of social workers in this field as they have the skills that could benefit disabled people and because of the evidence that if it is left to occupational therapists an…
Social Work with Disabled People
This book has been substantially revised to take into account the legislative changes since 1983 and the theoretical developments in the field of disability. Whilst continuing to highlight the negativ
Anatomy of an epidemic
by Robert Whitaker, New York, Crown Publishing Group (Division of Random House Inc.), 2010, 416 pp., $26.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-30-745241-2 This book is an impressive piece of investigatory jour
Increases in wheelchair use and perceptions of disablement
Between 1986 and 1995, there appeared to be a 100% increase in the number of wheelchair users in England and Wales. This article reports some of the findings of a study designed to explore the social implications of this increase. Specifically, it examines the various explanations for the increases and concludes that whilst demographic changes or research methodologies are not responsible, the more likely causes are changing prescription practice…
Disablement in the Informational Age
There is considerable evidence to suggest that at this point in history, we are in the midst of a global economic revolution. There is also a considerable literature to suggest that the industrial revolutions have shaped and constructed the nature of disablement in the twentieth century. This paper examines employment data from the USA and UK on the process of informationalisation, in order to ascertain if it is having a particular impact on the …
Social Work Tomorrow
This paper makes use of theoretical ideas that have been developed to understand the impact of new technology on organizations and applies them to its use within social work agencies. These developing theories employ ideas that are familiar to social workers—organization theory, decision making theory, and communication theory. The paper therefore argues that social workers are in a good position to understand and influence the use of computers w…
Disabling Homes
This research was carried out between January and July 1993. The study was an evaluation of housing need of disabled people who were wheelchair users through a process of consumer consultation. It was concerned to find out the extent and nature of that need whilst also testing out consultation through the use of research methods in comparison with a non-consultative approach taken by the local authorities. The nature of need was found to be quali…
Out of touch
In autumn 2003 we contracted to undertake a study in two district council areas of ways in which they could meet their Local Public Service Agreement (LPSA) targets in respect of disabled people returning to work. We undertook a literature review of barriers to work, interviewed a number of people involved in working with unemployed people and a number of disabled people in these areas. All the employment organisations we had contact with were wo…
Disability and Dependency
In this paper we analyse the provision of housing for disabled people in both its historical and ideological contexts. While the recent extension of part M of the Building Regulations to dwellings by the government represents a significant advance towards the inclusion of disabled people, we argue that the shift in funding of public housing from a 'bricks and mortar' subsidy to Housing Benefit potentially creates greater dependency. This amounts …
Compounding the trauma
For more than a hundred years, voice hearing has been treated as a symptom of serious mental illnesses with biological origins. Pharmaceutical companies have expanded the range of products targeted at treating these illnesses and the diagnosis of schizophrenia now underpins a multi-billion dollar, world-wide business. Throughout the western world, nation states have vested an authority in psychiatry to compulsorily treat people who meet a set of …
Doctoring the mind
Crazy like us
by Ethan Watters, London, Robinson Publishing, 2011, 256 pp., £9.99 (paperback), ISBN 978‐1‐849‐01577‐6 This book tells four stories about the ways in which the US psychiatric and pharmaceutical in
Truth or Manipulation? The Politics of Government-funded Disability Research
(1998). Truth or Manipulation? The Politics of Government-funded Disability Research. Disability & Society: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 297-300
Social Work with Disabled People
This book has been substantially revised to take into account the legislative changes since 1983 and the theoretical developments in the field of disability. Whilst continuing to highlight the negativ
Ramps and civil rights
This article reviews the literature on housing and disability from a civil rights perspective. It presents strong evidence that housing cannot be ignored by social workers if they are to be effective in the provision of genuine community care. It argues for an increased involvement of social workers in this field as they have the skills that could benefit disabled people and because of the evidence that if it is left to occupational therapists an…
Disabling Homes
This research was carried out between January and July 1993. The study was an evaluation of housing need of disabled people who were wheelchair users through a process of consumer consultation. It was concerned to find out the extent and nature of that need whilst also testing out consultation through the use of research methods in comparison with a non-consultative approach taken by the local authorities. The nature of need was found to be quali…
Social Work Tomorrow
This paper makes use of theoretical ideas that have been developed to understand the impact of new technology on organizations and applies them to its use within social work agencies. These developing theories employ ideas that are familiar to social workers—organization theory, decision making theory, and communication theory. The paper therefore argues that social workers are in a good position to understand and influence the use of computers w…
Truth or Manipulation? The Politics of Government-funded Disability Research
(1998). Truth or Manipulation? The Politics of Government-funded Disability Research. Disability & Society: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 297-300
Disability and Dependency
In this paper we analyse the provision of housing for disabled people in both its historical and ideological contexts. While the recent extension of part M of the Building Regulations to dwellings by the government represents a significant advance towards the inclusion of disabled people, we argue that the shift in funding of public housing from a 'bricks and mortar' subsidy to Housing Benefit potentially creates greater dependency. This amounts …
Disablement in the Informational Age
There is considerable evidence to suggest that at this point in history, we are in the midst of a global economic revolution. There is also a considerable literature to suggest that the industrial revolutions have shaped and constructed the nature of disablement in the twentieth century. This paper examines employment data from the USA and UK on the process of informationalisation, in order to ascertain if it is having a particular impact on the …
Disability Discourse
Impairment, Disability, and Loss
Psychological theories of loss and grief, which suggest that people must go through stages such as shock, anger, denial, and despair before finally reaching a recovered stage of acceptance, have often been applied to understanding the experience of disability. However, this has also been firmly rejected within the U.K. disability studies literature, which draws on the experience of disabled people from a critical perspective. The result is not ju…
Out of touch
In autumn 2003 we contracted to undertake a study in two district council areas of ways in which they could meet their Local Public Service Agreement (LPSA) targets in respect of disabled people returning to work. We undertook a literature review of barriers to work, interviewed a number of people involved in working with unemployed people and a number of disabled people in these areas. All the employment organisations we had contact with were wo…
Increases in wheelchair use and perceptions of disablement
Between 1986 and 1995, there appeared to be a 100% increase in the number of wheelchair users in England and Wales. This article reports some of the findings of a study designed to explore the social implications of this increase. Specifically, it examines the various explanations for the increases and concludes that whilst demographic changes or research methodologies are not responsible, the more likely causes are changing prescription practice…
Older People and Dissatisfaction with Wheelchair Services
Britain has experienced an unprecedented increase in wheelchair use during the past two decades. The authors take a social model approach to disability and report on their study in the north-west of England into the social implications of this increase. Qualitative interviews and a large-scale social survey reveal the circumstances of users and their experiences. Building on their descriptive statistics, the authors use latent class analysis to i…
La politique du handicap
Cette contribution examine l’importance du modèle social du handicap pour le mouvement des personnes handicapées au Royaume-Uni et comment il a nourri la réflexion sur la politique à l’égard des personnes handicapées. Elle relate les changements introduits dans cette politique depuis 1948 et revient sur l’évolution de la protection sociale, depuis les modes institutionnels mis en place à partir du XIX e siècle jusqu’à la naissance d’une politique…
Doctoring the mind
Crazy like us
by Ethan Watters, London, Robinson Publishing, 2011, 256 pp., £9.99 (paperback), ISBN 978‐1‐849‐01577‐6 This book tells four stories about the ways in which the US psychiatric and pharmaceutical in
Anatomy of an epidemic
by Robert Whitaker, New York, Crown Publishing Group (Division of Random House Inc.), 2010, 416 pp., $26.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-30-745241-2 This book is an impressive piece of investigatory jour
Compounding the trauma
For more than a hundred years, voice hearing has been treated as a symptom of serious mental illnesses with biological origins. Pharmaceutical companies have expanded the range of products targeted at treating these illnesses and the diagnosis of schizophrenia now underpins a multi-billion dollar, world-wide business. Throughout the western world, nation states have vested an authority in psychiatry to compulsorily treat people who meet a set of …
Madness, Distress and the Politics of Disablement
Political science (13 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Healthcare innovation and challenges (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Business (5 works) · Disability Rights and Representation (5 works) · Politics (5 works)