Disability: social aspects books

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Margaret Brown is the author of the popular When Man Said No, God Said Yes, the personal story of her son's journey...  Read More >>

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This annual report examines the dynamics of paid employment in care activities in Latin American countries, as well...  Read More >>

LIKE TEST PREP presents its workbook series for Meet Amazing Americans, a website created by US Library of Congress...  Read More >>

Framing the moron details the variety of dehumanizing and fear-inducing rhetoric employed by the American eugenic...  Read More >>

In this collection of historical essays the editors have assembled innovative methodological approaches for doing...  Read More >>

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Reading Victorian Deafness is the first book to address the crucial role that deaf people, and their unique language...  Read More >>

First Published in 1940. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

On September 8, 1989, Dan Miears closed one chapter of his life and began another when a motorcycle accident left...  Read More >>

Yet we also know that people vary their idea of quality as a result of the context of fluctuations in their own...  Read More >>

This book contextualizes autism as a socio cultural phenomenon, and examines the often troubling effects of representations...  Read More >>

This book is an unprecedented attempt to initiate an academic dialogue on disability studies in India by bringing...  Read More >>

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How do you lose music? Then having lost it, what do you do next? This book offers an account of one man's struggle...  Read More >>

This book covers the social history of disability in the Middle Ages. By exploring cultural discourses of medieval...  Read More >>

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Written by a dad of a child with special needs, the book talks about the joys, hopes, dreams, concerns, and issues...  Read More >>

Disability and chronic illness represents a special kind of cultural diversity, the ""other"" to ""normal"" able-bodiedness....  Read More >>

An intimate and original view into the hidden world of deafness by an international lawyer who survived Andover,...  Read More >>

Uses the archetypal concept of the carnival as a framework to interpret the evolution of ASL literature. This title...  Read More >>

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Includes the cultural perceptions by and of deaf people, the assimilation of deaf children to surrounding communities,...  Read More >>