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Are mental health problems a ‘disability’?

We chat with Professor Tom Shakespeare about the relationship between concepts of disability and mental health.

Tom is Professor of Disability Research at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He has taught and researched at the universities of Sunderland, Leeds, Newcastle and East Anglia, worked for the World Health Organisation, and authored several books including 'Sexual Politics of Disability', 'Disability Rights and Wrongs' and 'Disability - the Basics'.

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