Disability

`Brain Injury and Returning to Employment attempts to give the professional a broad introduction to dealing with clients who have suffered a brain injury of some sort. Although aimed at a wide range of professionals, from careers guidance workers through...

This book explores multiple metanarratives of disability to introduce and investigate the critical concept of assumed authority and the normative social order from which it derives.The book comprises 15 chapters developed across three parts and, informed...

This comprehensive volume assesses the relationship between legal rights and disability and the effect of law, legal process and third party professional intervention on the lives of people with disabilities. Stressing the crucial role played by disabled...

This edited collection is the result of the Voices of Individuals: Collectively Exploring Self-determination (VOICES) based at the Centre for Disability Law and Policy, National University of Ireland Galway. Focusing on the exercise of legal capacity...

The book contains a range of important messages in highlighting some of the complexities involved in the adaptation of housing for disabled people. The book is also progressive in calling for user-centred approaches in the development and delivery of...

People with disabilities in Canada inhabit a system of deep structural, economic, social, political, legal, and cultural inequality - a regime of dis-citizenship. Despite the widespread belief that Canada is a country of liberty, equality, and...

Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the...

Introduces key terms, concepts, debates, and histories for Disability Studies Keywords for Disability Studies aims to broaden and define the conceptual framework of disability studies for readers and practitioners in the field and beyond. The volume...

With contributions from an international team of experts, this collection provides a much-needed international, comparative approach to mental capacity law. The book focuses particularly on exploring substantive commonalities and divergences in...

Media representation of and for the disabled has been recharged in recent years with the expansion of new media worldwide. Interactive digital communications-such as the Internet, new varieties of voice and text telephones, and digital broadcasting-have...

The most basic of human rights, the right to life, is the focus of this book. 'Human rights' has increasingly come to be seen as a significant framework, both to aid understanding of the experiences of those who face oppression, and to underpin social,...

Filling a gap within the discipline, Disability and Employment in the United States is the first text to provide a broad overview of the connection between work and disability. Highlighting the experiences of disabled individuals who have worked despite...

The recommendations for policy are reform of equalities legislation, better support for individual perpetrators and measures to improve relations between social landlords and medico-welfare agencies involved in ASB control. This book presents an analysis...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996659239Author Rob WrubelFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Rosalibean Publishing LLCPublisher Rosalibean Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911028888Author David ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Pavilion Publishing and Media LtdPublisher Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922714398Author Kate HingstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint OnestopcelebrantPublisher OnestopcelebrantWeight(grams) 154g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903335949Author Ian GreavesFormat PaperbackImprint Disability Rights UKPublisher Disability Rights UK

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798988260288Author Joyce ChediacFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint 1804 BooksPublisher 1804 BooksWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781835634431Author Mark BurginFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams) 358g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734771206Author Baron L MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Baron L. MillerPublisher Baron L. MillerWeight(grams) 152g

This is the first collection to examine the legal dynamics of deinstitutionalisation. It considers the extent to which some contemporary laws, policies and practices affecting people with disabilities are moving towards the promised end point of enhanced...

This book considers the governance of autistic defendants and offenders in the UK courts.Utilising the social model of disability, it considers the dominant strategies of governance, including 'vulnerability', which the author argues obscures the rights...

This book examines several aspects of the equality and non-discrimination norms in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). In the first instance, the book provides an interpretation and critical analysis of the legal meaning...

This is the first collection to examine the legal dynamics of deinstitutionalisation. It considers the extent to which some contemporary laws, policies and practices affecting people with disabilities are moving towards the promised end point of enhanced...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781963911220Author Maria Elena BermudezFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Unstoppable CEO PressPublisher Unstoppable CEO PressWeight(grams) 118g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798224079551Author Avi LeibovicFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint AVI LeibovicPublisher AVI LeibovicWeight(grams) 386g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789966100283Author David TetiFormat PaperbackPage Count 390Imprint Lawcroft PublishersPublisher Lawcroft PublishersWeight(grams) 463g

The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has facilitated the understanding that disability is both a human rights and development issue. In order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, the focus on disability inclusion...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913976026Author DomaFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Adonis & Abbey PublishersPublisher Adonis & Abbey PublishersWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789970258871Author H HintjensFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint Fountain PublishersPublisher Fountain PublishersWeight(grams) 558g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645605720Author Vivek SinghFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Black Eagle BooksPublisher Black Eagle BooksWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782889314102Author David Brian DennisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint Globethics.NetPublisher Globethics.NetWeight(grams) 148g

This publication looks at barriers faced by many women and girls living with disabilities in Asia and the Pacific. It provides guidance on inclusive approaches to project and program design, implementation, monitoring, and review.The publication outlines...

This collection brings together leading international socio-legal and medico-legal scholars to explore the dilemma of how to support legal capacity in theory and practice. Traditionally, decisions for persons found to lack capacity are made by others,...

What rights, if any, do fat people have? If a child is obese, are the parents legally responsible? Can employers treat overweight employees as different, or disabled? Should fat people be protected by disability laws? Cases of illegal hiring practices,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648417804Author Charlene McIverFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Charlene McIverPublisher Charlene McIverWeight(grams) 318g

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The Blackstone's Guide Series delivers concise and accessible books covering the latest legislation changes and amendments. Published within weeks of an Act, they offer expert commentary by leading names on the effects, extent and scope of the...

Building on the insights of both disability studies and civil rights scholars, Mark C. Weber frames his examination of disability harassment on the premise that disabled people are members of a minority group that must negotiate an artificial yet often...

This road map will guide the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in strengthening its approach to disability-inclusive development.The publication sets out a practical route to greater disability inclusion in ADB projects, research, and organizational systems,...