People with Disabilities

This book uses the concept of "learning disability" to explore what it means to be human. It argues that we need to learn with rather than from or about learning disability. This crucial distinction means being open to what learning disability can teach...

"With breath-catching insight and enveloping compassion, Sunaura Taylor shares a secret of epochal urgency: people living with injury and impairment have much to teach about how to survive, and perhaps even thrive, on an injured and impaired planet...

This book aims to shed light on the pressing and often overlooked challenges faced by individuals with disabilities in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The book explores how structural barriers, limited resources, and socio-cultural factors...

There is an increased interest to turn the spotlight not only on the needs and experiences of service users, but also to understand the complexity of issues that their caregivers' experience. An informal caregiver is any relative, spouse/partner, friend...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439923894Author Pamela BlockFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780774869737Author Patty DouglasFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint University of British Columbia PressPublisher University of British Columbia...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807013243Author Jessica SliceFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Disability is of central concern to the developing world but has largely been under-represented in global development debates, discourses and negotiations. Similarly, disability studies has overlooked both the theorists and the social experience of the...

There 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...

Drawing on recent theoretical frameworks from critical disability studies and art education including normalcy, ableism, disability and Crip theory, this book offers an analysis of the conceptualisation of ability in art education and its relationship...

In 1930, neurosyphilis struck an unsuspecting Mabel Smith. Doctors at the Central State Hospital for the Insane in Indianapolis turned to malaria therapy--a radical treatment that relied on the belief that infection with malaria might save Smith's life...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781032327679Author Radu Harald DinuPage Count 237Imprint Taylor & Francis LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

In Menace to the Future, Jess Whatcott traces the link between US disability institutions and early twentieth-century eugenicist ideology, demonstrating how the legacy of those ideas continues to shape incarceration and detention today. Whatcott focuses...

In Menace to the Future, Jess Whatcott traces the link between US disability institutions and early twentieth-century eugenicist ideology, demonstrating how the legacy of those ideas continues to shape incarceration and detention today. Whatcott focuses...

'I defy anyone who reads this powerful and urgently needed manifesto not to be galvanised into action' Sophie Morgan, TV host and author of Driving Forwards 'A call to arms, not just for the disabled community, but for every single one of us' Dr...

Forthcoming Fall 2024Book InformationISBN 9781439926222Author Amanda CachiaFormat HardbackPage Count 323Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 454g

Forthcoming Fall 2024Book InformationISBN 9781439926239Author Amanda CachiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 323Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 454g

The Story of What Is Broken Is Whole collects for the first time fifty years of writing by Puerto Rican Jewish feminist and radical thinker Aurora Levins Morales. Combining well-known excerpts from her books with out-of-print and harder to find ephemeral...

This book examines how an understanding of social-cultural and resource dynamics can inform the development of context-sensitive approaches to the early education and care of young deaf children, and the support of their caregivers. The authors...

When you think of a person with dwarfism, what image springs to mind? Now, hold onto that image and consider how you are expected to respond to it. Is your response laughter, amusement or maybe curiosity? Do you even see them as human, or just a novelty...