People with Disabilities

The Matter of Disability returns disability to its proper place as an ongoing historical process of corporeal, cognitive, and sensory mutation operating in a world of dynamic, even cataclysmic, change. The book's contributors offer new theorizations of...

The contributors to Crip Genealogies reorient the field of disability studies by centering the work of transnational feminism, queer of color critique, and trans scholarship and activism. They challenge the white, Western, and Northern rights-based...

This important text draws together a wealth of experience to present theoretical and practical insights into the way society intervenes in the lives of disabled people, and considers how resources could be used in ways that are more helpful and...

For most of the twentieth century, people with disabilities have been regarded as 'victims' of their condition and a 'burden' on society. More recently, however, disabled people and their organizations across Europe and North America have challenged...

Written in a clear, accessible style, Health introduces students to the valuable contribution sociologists have made to understanding health, illness and disease. In so doing, it challenges the adequacy of biomedical models, contrasting them with...

Geographies of disability have become a key research priority for many disability scholars and geographers. This edited collection, incorporating the work of leading international disability researchers, seeks to expand the current geographical frame...

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. The Camphill movement, one of the world's largest and most enduring networks of intentional communities, deserves both recognition and study. Founded in Scotland at...

Championing the liberatory potential of silence to address the fraught disability politics of queernessIn queer culture, silence has been equated with voicelessness, complicity, and even death. Queer Silence insists, however, that silence can be a...

A philosophical challenge to the ableist conflation of disability and pain More than 2,000 years ago, Aristotle said: "let there be a law that no deformed child shall live." This idea is alive and well today. During the past century, Supreme Court...

Tools for People with Disabilities from a Person with a Disability"Access Your Drive and Enjoy the Ride is fun, practical, and no-nonsense."-Stephanie Thomas, TEDx Speaker and founder, stylist, and editor-in-chief of the disability fashion lifestyle...

Concerto for the Left Hand is at the cutting-edge of the expanding field of disability studies, offering a wide range of essays that investigate the impact of disability across various art forms - including literature, performance, photography, and film...

Risk Assessment in People with Learning Disabilities, Second Edition reflects legislative updates made over the past decade while continuing to demystify the process of assessing risk for people with intellectual impairment (previously called 'learning...

This manual is the companion guide to Uniquely Normal: Tapping the Reservoir of Normalcy to Treat Autism. It is a guide you in using the Bernstein Cognitive Method for Autism (BCMA, or Bernstein Method for short). Rob teaches us the commonsense approach...

This picture book aims to raise awareness of the impact that tics and Tourettes can have on an individual and their family in a child-friendly and supportive way. It is aimed at 4-11 year olds and has been inspired and informed by people with lived...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989867405Author David GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint CAST Professional PublishingPublisher CAST Professional Publishing

With the advent of the human genome, cloning, stem-cell research and many other developments in the way we think of the body, disability studies provides an entirely new way of thinking about the body in its relation to politics, the environment, the...

This is a collection of essays that analyze the presence of ableism in superhero narratives from television shows, films, and comics. Contributors use critical disability studies, media studies, cultural studies, and other interdisciplinary fields to...

How neurotypical hegemony reproduces a culture of exclusion-and how to overcome this with love, hope, and solidarityAbleism is embedded in our daily lives. Social life, education, work, and, especially, mental health have been organized around rigid...

This book on Deaf made home movies takes readers on a journey through the first fifty years of filmmaking (from 1925 through the 1970s), highlighting how the American Deaf community utilized silent film technology. Home movies and the visual nature of...

In Interface Frictions, Neta Alexander explores how ubiquitous design features in digital platforms reshape, condition, and break our bodies. She shows that while features such as refresh, playback speed, autoplay, and night mode are convenient, they can...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798886975550Author Samuel B BarretFormat HardbackImprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers Inc

From disability metaphors to narratives structured around bodies presented as aberrant, early medieval English thoughtworlds conveyed the promise of resurrection and the hope of salvation through crip and disabled bodies. Light of the Everlasting Life...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872242422Author Bob Williams-FindlayFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Resistance BooksPublisher Resistance Books

From disability metaphors to narratives structured around bodies presented as aberrant, early medieval English thoughtworlds conveyed the promise of resurrection and the hope of salvation through crip and disabled bodies. Light of the Everlasting Life...

Originally 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...

Cutting-edge methods for unearthing disability history How do we explain the conspicuous absence of disability from the histories we write? What forces and factors create this dynamic? How can disability be everywhere and nowhere, present and absent, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954622654Author John B ChristiansenFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Gallaudet University PressPublisher Gallaudet University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472075355Author Nina BermanFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan PressWeight(grams)...

This wide-ranging book shows why Paul Longmore is one of the most respected figures in disability studies today. Understanding disability as a major variety of human experience, he urges us to establish it as a category of social, political, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781563685880Author Katherine JankowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Gallaudet University Press,U.S.Publisher Gallaudet University Press,U.S.

With America on the brink of the largest number of older adults and persons with disabilities in the countrys history, the deceleration in housing production during the first decade of the twenty-first century, and a continued reliance on conventional...

After over half a decade of living under an undiagnosed behavioural dementia, problems with the use of P's hands leads to a diagnosis of Motor Neuron Disease and then, some months later, a diagnosis of established Frontotemporal Dementia. A series of...

When children are born with disabilities or become disabled in childhood, parents often experience bewilderment: they find themselves unexpectedly in another world, without a roadmap, without community, and without narratives to make sense of their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472077519Author Vanessa Kay WarneFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint University of Michigan PressPublisher University of Michigan Press

By Touch Alone demonstrates how reading by touch not only changed the lives of nineteenth-century blind people, but also challenged long-standing perceptions about blindness and reading. Over the course of the nineteenth century, thousands of blind...

This book on Deaf made home movies takes readers on a journey through the first fifty years of filmmaking (from 1925 through the 1970s), highlighting how the American Deaf community utilized silent film technology. Home movies and the visual nature of...

Midget, feeble-minded, crippled, lame, and insane: these terms and the historical photographs that accompany them may seem shocking to present-day audiences. A young woman with no arms wears a sequined tutu and smiles for the camera as she smokes a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781793643711Author Jan Doolittle WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington Books

Kolarova's Rehabilitative Postsocialism offers a timely interdisciplinary and intersectional analysis of how disability, race, class, and gender operate as ideological tools within the postsocialist Czech Republic (formerly Czechoslovakia). Kolarova...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472057436Author Katerina KolarovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan...