Disability and Technology

Alan Roulstone is Professor of Disability Studies at the University Leeds, UK. He is author of twelve books and over sixty journal articles and book chapters. His interests include disability, technology, policy, exclusion, inclusion, and the politics of hate crime. Alan has completed a range of internationally recognised research and with policy, practice, and activist constituencies.

• Introduction.- Part I. Disability and Technology in Context.- Chapter 1. Between Bodies, Artefacts and Theories: Theorising Disability, Theorising Technology.- Chapter 2. I Am Not Sure We've Been Introduced? Disability Meets Technology.- Part II. Understanding Disability, Understanding Technology.- Chapter 3. Employing Technology to Good Effect: Technology, Disability and the 'Palace'.- Chapter 4. Disability, Ageing and Technology: They Think That By Throwing a Pendant Alarm at You It Equals Independence.- Chapter 5. The Wheelchair: Enabled or Disabled? Houston, We've Had a Problem.- Chapter 6. To Augment or Not Augment? That is the Question: From Cochlear Implants to Exoskeletons.- Final Reflection.