Michael Oliver

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Michael Oliver

British academic and author

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disability studies
Michael Oliver, a disabled sociologist, helped to push the movement into academia with his book Politics of Disablement: A Sociological Approach (1990), in which he analyzed how a social issue such as disability gets cast as an individual medicalized phenomenon.
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Michael Oliver, a disabled sociologist, helped to push the movement into academia with his book Politics of Disablement: A Sociological Approach (1990), in which he analyzed how a social issue such as disability gets cast as an individual medicalized phenomenon.
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