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Disability and Art History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century by Ann Millett-Gallant 9780367500450
RRP: £38.99£34.22This volume analyzes representations of disability in art from antiquity to the twenty-first century, incorporating disability studies scholarship and art historical research and methodology.This book brings these two strands together to provide a... -
Patterns of Residential Care: Sociological Studies in Institutions for Handicapped Children by Roy D. King 9781032568591
RRP: £91.99£80.20Originally published in 1971, this title describes a series of studies dealing with the upbringing of children in residential institutions. Most work has been carried out in institutions for children with learning disabilities, although units caring for... -
Disabling Policies?: A Comparative Approach to Education Policy and Disability by Gillian Fulcher 9781138951396
RRP: £39.99£32.77First published in 1989, this book is about integrating or mainstreaming policies, looking specifically at how to improve circumstances for schoolchildren with disabilities or handicaps, and their teachers. The author draws on her experiences, both... -
Normalisation in Practice: Residential Care for Children with a Profound Mental Handicap by Andy Alaszewski 9781138951198
£117.93First published in 1990, this book was the first informed study to focus on care within the voluntary sector. Written with the child in mind, it is a sensitive work which explores the administration, strategy, and problems facing carers in children's... -
The Costs of Caring: Families with Disabled Children by Sally Baldwin 9781138951037
£93.60First published in 1985, this book considers the financial consequences of parents and other relatives caring for severely disabled children at home. At the time of publication little reliable information was available on the costs incurred by 'informal... -
Disability, Human Rights and the Limits of Humanitarianism by Michael Gill 9781138247642
RRP: £51.99£45.19Disability studies scholars and activists have long criticized and critiqued so-termed 'charitable' approaches to disability where the capitalization of individual disabled bodies to invoke pity are historically, socially, and politically circumscribed... -
Childhood Disability and Family Systems by Michael Ferrari 9781138122826
RRP: £31.99£28.33First published in 1987, this book focuses on childhood disability within the family. It examines the very nature of disability itself, as well as many of the fundamental elements of families. The book was written at a time when the meaning level of... -
Caring for the Mentally Handicapped Child by David Wilkin 9781138124943
RRP: £31.99£28.33First published in 1979, this book concerns itself primarily with the mothers of mentally handicapped children. It discusses the problems of assistance that they may have experienced from their families, the community, or the available services. Whilst... -
Daily Living with a Handicapped Child by Diana M. Millard 9781138124929
RRP: £21.99£19.34First published in 1984, this book focuses on the support and reassurance needed by parents of children with handicaps. It provides a practical guide in relation to daily care and is equally as relevant to professionals, therapists, teachers, doctors and... -
Daily Living with a Handicapped Child by Diana M. Millard 9781138124905
£78.60First published in 1984, this book focuses on the support and reassurance needed by parents of children with handicaps. It provides a practical guide in relation to daily care and is equally as relevant to professionals, therapists, teachers, doctors and... -
Parents and Young Mentally Handicapped Children: A Review of Research Issues by Helen McConachie 9781138124431
£87.00First published in 1986, this book reviews research on the role parents play in fostering the early development of children with mental handicaps. Professionals and parents must work together to give such children the chance of living as ordinary lives... -
Disability and Shopping: Customers, Markets and the State by Ieva Eskyte 9781138105775
RRP: £135.00£117.28Disability and Shopping:Customers, Markets and the State provides an examination of the diverse experiences and perspectives of disabled customers, industry and civil society. It discusses how the interaction between the three stakeholders should be... -
The Child with Spina Bifida by Elizabeth M. Anderson 9781138101548
RRP: £35.99£32.09First published in 1977, this book focuses on the disability of spina bifida in children. Children with the condition frequently suffer with severe physical handicaps such as lower limb paralysis and incontinence, as well as intellectual impairment. It... -
Integration of Handicapped Children in Society by James Loring 9781138122857
RRP: £135.00£117.28First published in 1975, this book looks at the place of children with handicaps in society, at that time. It argues that in the thirty years previous, a great deal of progress was made in the field of rehabilitation but that the separation between... -
Independence Training for Visually Handicapped Children by Doris Tooze 9781138123359
£111.61First published in 1981, this book was written to help parents and teachers to participate in child-based mobility programmes, covering the needs of visually-handicapped children from pre-school to adulthood. It gives insight into ways in which these... -
Foundations of Forensic Vocational Rehabilitation by Rick Robinson 9780826199270
RRP: £77.99£63.56This is the first fundamental text to focus specifically on forensic vocational rehabilitation, a field that is forecast to grow rapidly. Forensic vocational rehabilitation consultants evaluate the vocational and rehabilitation needs of individuals in an... -
Assessment in Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling by David R. Strauser 9780826162427
RRP: £74.99£60.93This graduate-level text on rehabilitation and mental health counseling disseminates foundational knowledge of assessment principles and processes with a focus on clinical application. Written by recognized leaders in rehabilitation and mental health, it... -
Disability Across the Developmental Lifespan: An Introduction for the Helping Professions by Julie Smart 9780826139221
RRP: £70.99£57.75This is the only text to examine the experience of disability in relation to theories of human growth and development. It provides a foundational and comprehensive examination of disability that encompasses the intellectual, psychiatric, physical, and... -
Rehabilitation Counseling and Emerging Disabilities: Medical, Psychosocial, and Vocational Aspects by Lynn C. Koch 9780826120687
RRP: £62.99£51.41The first book to focus on non-traditional, emerging disabilities and their implications for rehabilitation practice. Emerging disabilities are disabling conditions that are either new to medical science, often medically debated, and lacking in known... -
Worth Saving: Disabled Children During the Second World War by Sue Wheatcroft 9780719088001
RRP: £85.00£60.17Early in the war, when faced with an acute shortage of accommodation for evacuees, a government official questioned whether disabled children were 'worth saving'. This book examines how the evacuation in England was planned, executed and evaluated for... -
Destigmatising Mental Illness?: Professional Politics and Public Education in Britain, 1870-1970 by Vicky Long 9780719085819
RRP: £85.00£60.17This historical study of mental healthcare workers' efforts to educate the public challenges the supposition that public prejudice generates the stigma of mental illness. Drawing on extensive archival research, this book argues that psychiatrists, nurses... -
Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Intellectual Disability in the United States by James Trent 9780199396184
RRP: £41.49£35.48Pity, disgust, fear, cure, and prevention-all are words that Americans have used to make sense of what today we call intellectual disability. Inventing the Feeble Mind explores the history of this disability from its several identifications over the past... -
Politics of Blindness Audiobook: From Charity to Parity by Graeme McCreath 9781894694810
RRP: £17.99£11.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894694810Author Graeme McCreathFormat PaperbackPage Count 167Imprint Granville Island PublishingPublisher Granville Island PublishingWeight(grams) 274g -
Encountering Pain: Hearing, Seeing, Speaking by Deborah Padfield 9781787352650
RRP: £50.00£43.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787352650Author Deborah PadfieldFormat HardbackPage Count 428Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 156g -
Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell by Marta Russell 9781608467198
RRP: £80.00£52.79Spread out over many years and many different publications, the late author and activist Marta Russell wrote a number of groundbreaking and insightful essays on the nature of disability and oppression under capitalism. In this volume, Russell's various... -
Ableism in Academia: Theorising Experiences of Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses in Higher Education by Nicole Brown 9781787354999
RRP: £45.00£39.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787354999Author Nicole BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 262Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 590g -
Dis/ability in Media, Law and History: Intersectional, Embodied AND Socially Constructed? by Micky Lee 9781032189802
RRP: £38.99£34.22This book explores how being "disabled" originates in the physical world, social representations and rules, and historical power relations—the interplay of which render bodies "normal" or not.Do parking signs that represent people in wheelchairs as... -
Intellectual Disability and the Right to a Sexual Life: A Continuation of the Autonomy/Paternalism Debate by Simon Foley 9781138628243
RRP: £135.00£117.28One of the perennial political/philosophical questions concerns whether it is ever justifiable for a third party to paternalistically restrict an adult's freedom to ensure their own, or society's, best interests are protected. Wherever one stands on this... -
How to Conduct Ethnographies of Institutions for People with Cognitive Difficulties by Kjeld Hogsbro 9781138495357
RRP: £135.00£117.68This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the methodological, theoretical, and meta-theoretical considerations and guidelines involved in undertaking institutional ethnographic work involving people with cognitive and communicative disabilities. ... -
Disabled People and Economic Needs in the Developing World: A Political Perspective from Jordan by Majid Turmusani 9781138378766
RRP: £46.99£40.97This book explores the economic situation of disabled people in developing countries focusing on rehabilitation and uses particpatory framework to community development. Although dealing specifically with a case study from Jordan, this needs assessment... -
The Professional Practice of Rehabilitation Counseling by Michael T. Hartley 9780826139030
RRP: £74.99£60.53The most current book available on rehabilitation counseling! This textbook is a comprehensive introduction to rehabilitation counseling, encompassing its history, values, knowledge, skills, and links to the disability community. Underscoring disability... -
Opening the Door: A Study of New Policies for the Mentally Handicapped by Kathleen Jones 9781032538648
RRP: £91.99£80.20First published in 1975, Opening the Door is a survey of policies and problems in services for the mentally handicapped. It describes the improvements which have taken place since 1969, when the inquiry into conditions of patients at Ely hospital in... -
Disability, Gender and Violence over the Life Course: Global Perspectives and Human Rights Approaches by Sonali Shah 9780367590710
RRP: £38.99£34.22This is the first book to explore the interplay of disability, gender and violence over the life course from researcher, practitioner and survivor perspectives. It gives due weight to the accounts of disabled children and adults who have survived... -
Narrating the Many Autisms: Identity, Agency, Mattering by Anna Stenning 9780367478384
RRP: £135.00£117.68Autism is a profoundly contested idea. The focus of this book is not what autism is or what autistic people are, but rather, it grapples with the central question: what does it take for autistic people to participate in a shared world as equals with... -
Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World by Ben Mattlin 9780807013335
RRP: £19.99£13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807013335Author Ben MattlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
Accessibility Denied. Understanding Inaccessibility and Everyday Resistance to Inclusion for Persons with Disabilities by Hanna Egard 9780367637309
RRP: £38.99£34.22Provides a new and innovative approach through an ethnographic and people-centred conceptualization of “access”, and a consideration of why social change appears to be slowing down, hampered or even sidestepped. Provides empirical studies but also... -
Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age by Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer 9781517909130
RRP: £97.00£82.61Developing a cybernetic model of subjectivity and personhood that honors disability experiences to reconceptualize the category of the human Twentieth-century neuroscience fixed the brain as the basis of consciousness, the self, identity, individuality,... -
Disability Representation in Film, TV, and Print Media by Michael S. Jeffress 9781032066332
RRP: £38.99£34.22Using sources from a wide variety of print and digital media, this book discusses the need for ample and healthy portrayals of disability and neurodiversity in the media, as the primary way that most people learn about conditions.It contains 13 newly... -
Signs and Voices: Deaf Culture, Identity, Language, and Arts by Kristin A. Lindgren 9781563685750
RRP: £64.00£61.27Signs and Voices addresses the effects of a range of modern scientific and social developments - such as cochlear implants, genetic engineering, and educational mainstreaming - on deaf culture. The book is split into three sections, the first focusing on... -
Midgetism: The Exploitation and Discrimination of People with Dwarfism by Erin Pritchard 9781032465944
RRP: £125.00£107.86There exist problematic attitudes and beliefs about dwarfism that have rarely been challenged, but continue to construct people with dwarfism as an inferior group within society. This book introduces the critical term ‘midgetism’, which the author has...