People with Disabilities

Conceived in the era of eugenics as a solution to what was termed the "problem of the feeble-minded," state-operated institutions subjected people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to a life of compulsory incarceration. One of nearly 300...

Introduction to American Deaf Culture is the only comprehensive textbook that provides a broad, yet in-depth, exploration of how Deaf people are best understood from a cultural perspective, with coverage of topics such as how culture is defined, how the...

Disability, Self, and Society speaks with authenticity about disability as a process of identity formation within a culture that has done a great deal to de-emphasize the complexity of disability experience. Unlike many who hold the conventional...

Joy, pain, celebration, and grief are constant companions on the journey of caregiving. While remaining detached might seem the preferable option, it is not possible to disentangle the threads of our interwoven stories. Our lives are shaped by each other...

Disability studies has engaged with discourse analysis in key works both from the UK and the USA. While the perspectives and analyses of discourse analysis have proved well suited for exploring disability, however, its methods have not been sufficiently...

Grouped around four central themes - illness and impairment, disabling processes, care and control, and communication and representations - this collection offers a fresh perspective on disability research, showing how theory and data can be brought...

Working futures? looks at the current effectiveness and future scope for enabling policy in the field of disability and employment. By addressing the current strengths and weaknesses of disability and employment policy, the book asks Is the dichotomy of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990454007Author Ilana S LehmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Mind Meld Media, LLCPublisher Mind Meld Media, LLCWeight(grams) 730g

How can a deep engagement with disability studies change our understanding of sociology, literary studies, gender studies, aesthetics, bioethics, social work, law, education, or history? Interdisciplinary Approaches to Disability (the companion volume to...

Disability and gender, terms that have previously seemed so clear-cut, are becoming increasingly complex in light of new politics and scholarship. These words now suggest complicated sets of practices and ways of being. Contributors to this innovative...

This book tells the stories of nine disabled leaders who, by force of personality and concrete achievement, have made us think differently about disability. Whatever direction they have come from, they share a common will to change society so that...

Over the past two decades, there has been increasing recognition of the ways in which disabled children and adults have been denied human and civil rights that others take for granted. In the year 2000, the Human Rights Act 1998 came into force. This...

How can or does youth sport reconcile what seems to be a fundamental contradiction between understandings of sport and disability? Has youth sport been challenged in anyway? Have alternative views of sport for disabled people been presented? Examining...

Over the past fifty years, design and branding have become omnipotent in the market and have made their way to other domains as well. Given their potential to divide humans into categories and label their worth and value, design and branding can wield...

This 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807036457Author Ben MattlinFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826159625Author Lee Ann Rawlins WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 422Imprint Springer Publishing Co IncPublisher Springer Publishing Co Inc

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807016442Author Julia Watts BelserFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 369g

The first volume presents a collection of exciting papers exploring several new areas of disability research. The contributions include: examination of the media representation of disability and coverage of disability policy issues which gives an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807072806Author Clare DunsfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Video games are both physically and cognitively demanding-so what does that mean for those with a disability or mental illness? Though they may seem at odds, Ability Machines illuminates just how vital video games are to understanding our bodies and...

Disability policy has become an increasingly important issue in countries around the world. More and more, as populations are exposed to war and civil conflicts, natural disasters, environmental poisons along with the effects of normal aging, accidents...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814214787Author Allyson DayFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 152g

What is the impact of an infant's diminished hearing on the infant and its parents? How does communication develop in cases of diminished hearing? How does diminished hearing affect social and cognitive development? What types of early interventions can...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013274114Author Steven K KappFormat HardbackPage Count 334Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Community Disability Services is an edited text designed to be used by education providers delivering short and long courses to Disability Studies students and by current practitioners working in community disability services. In its primary role of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258057Author Allyson DayFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 152g

After 133 years of operation, the 2009 closure of Ontario's government-run institutions for people with intellectual disabilities has allowed accounts of those affected to emerge. Madeline Burghardt draws from narratives of institutional survivors, their...

Brantlinger discusses the current medical and legal trends in sterilization with special emphasis on people with disabilities. She explores the issues surrounding sterilization decisions from the perspectives of judges, lawyers, social workers, doctors,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578954387Author Barbara Bush ForlettaFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Barbara Bush ForlettaPublisher Barbara Bush ForlettaWeight(grams) 286g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578575285Author Shirl Crimmins SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Shirl Crimmins SmithPublisher Shirl Crimmins SmithWeight(grams) 236g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780113214525Author Great Britain: Department of HealthFormat PaperbackImprint Stationery Office BooksPublisher TSO

Drawing on contemporary and historic literary and media examples of Western colonialism and Anglophone writings, Disability, the Environment, and Colonialism traces how the perverse nature of colonialism continues to dominate the globe today. The editors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781312609488Author Michael DowFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 857g

Combining critical policy analysis with biographical accounts, this book provides a socio-historical account of the changing treatment of disabled people in Britain from the 1940s to the present day. It asks whether life has really changed for disabled...

Using an autoethnographic approach, as well as multiple first-person accounts from disabled writers, artists, and scholars, Jan Doolittle Wilson describes how becoming disabled is to forge a new consciousness and a radically new way of viewing the world...

COVID-19 has once again illuminated the ways in which health risks and negative health outcomes are tied to economic and social inequalities. Disabled people rank among those most disadvantaged in terms of education, income, and social inclusion and this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798985140309Author Austin NicholsFormat PaperbackPage Count 510Imprint Abt AssociatesPublisher Abt AssociatesWeight(grams) 676g