Disability: social aspects books

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A Textured Life: Empowerment and Adults with Developmental Disabilities

A Textured Life: Empowerment and Adults with Developmental...

Author: Alison Pedlar ,  Lawrence Haworth
ISBN: 9780889203358
Format: Paperback
$102.83

To support adults with developmental disabilities so that they might live in our communities, new social policies...  Read More >>

Helping Someone With Mental Illness

Helping Someone With Mental Illness

Author: Rosalynn Carter ,  Susan Golant
ISBN: 9780812928983
Format: Paperback
$50.16

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Meaning of a Disability: the Lived Experience of Paralysis

Meaning of a Disability: the Lived Experience of Paralysis...

Author: Albert Robillard
ISBN: 9781566396752
Format: Hardback
$191.40

Suitable for healthcare professionals, disabled people, and caretakers as well as academics studying ethnomethodology,...  Read More >>

Meaning of a Disability: the Lived Experience of Paralysis

Meaning of a Disability: the Lived Experience of Paralysis...

Author: Albert Robillard
ISBN: 9781566396769
Format: Paperback
$73.79

Moving from examinations of narratives about disability and illness, the stigmatizing things that healthcare providers...  Read More >>

Missed Connections

Missed Connections

Author: Barbara Stenross
ISBN: 9781566396820
Format: Paperback
$71.15

Full of scenes, dialogues, and conversations, this title discusses such practical issues as how people with impaired...  Read More >>

Missed Connections

Missed Connections

Author: Barbara Stenross
ISBN: 9781566396813
Format: Hardback
$138.60

Few physical problems are as poorly understood as hearing loss. This book combines sociological reporting with personal...  Read More >>

Bridges of Compassion: Insights and Interventions in Developmental Disabilities

Bridges of Compassion: Insights and Interventions in...

Author: Alex Campbell ,  Lorne Ladner
ISBN: 9780765701312
Format: Hardback
$129.95

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Sounds Like Home

Sounds Like Home

Author: Mary Herring Wright
ISBN: 9781563680809
Format: Paperback
$76.43

New edition available: Sounds Like Home: Growing Up Black and Deaf in the South, 20th Anniversary Edition, ISBN...  Read More >>

Learning Disability in Focus: The Use of Photography in the Care of People with a Learning Disability

Learning Disability in Focus: The Use of Photography...

Author: Eve Jackson ,  Neil Jackson
ISBN: 9781853026935
Format: Paperback
$49.99

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Insanity, Institutions and Society, 1800-1914

Insanity, Institutions and Society, 1800-1914

Author: Bill Forsythe ,  Joseph Melling
ISBN: 9780415184410
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Remind Me Who I am Again

Remind Me Who I am Again

Author: Linda Grant
ISBN: 9781862072442
Format: Paperback
$42.11

Grant's account of her mother's dementia takes us on that descent into darkness, further and further from the light...  Read More >>

Sign Language Interpreting

Sign Language Interpreting

Author: Melanie Metzger
ISBN: 9781563680748
Format: Hardback
$198.00

This study provides a look at the games and events that deaf people have organized for themselves. It is a look...  Read More >>

Mental Health Services in Criminal Justice System Settings: A Selectively Annotated Bibliography, 1970-1997

Mental Health Services in Criminal Justice System Settings:...

Author: Rodney Van Whitlock ,  Bernard Lubin
ISBN: 9780313301865
Format: Hardback
$100.00

A collection of the professional literature from numerous disciplines, including psychology, psychiatry, nursing,...  Read More >>

Shall I Say a Kiss?: The Courtship Letters of a Deaf Couple, 1936-1938

Shall I Say a Kiss?: The Courtship Letters of a Deaf...

Author: Lennard J. Davis ,  Morris Joseph Davis
ISBN: 9781563680762
Format: Hardback
$116.03

Upon the death of his father Morris at age 82, Lennard Davis found among his effects a trove of letters, kept in...  Read More >>

Child Protection and Adult Mental Health: Conflict of Interest?

Child Protection and Adult Mental Health: Conflict of...

Author: Amy Weir ,  Anthony Douglas
ISBN: 9780750629041
Format: Paperback
$131.87

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Disability Discourse

Disability Discourse

Author: Mairian Corker ,  Sally French
ISBN: 9780335202225
Format: Paperback
$78.95

Drawing upon personal narratives, rhetoric, material discourse, discourse analysis, cultural representation, ethnography...  Read More >>

Schizophrenia and Parenting

Schizophrenia and Parenting

Author: Michael Ferriter
ISBN: 9781859723890
Format: Hardback
$316.80

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The Unlikely Celebrity: Bill Sackter's Triumph Over Disability

The Unlikely Celebrity: Bill Sackter's Triumph Over...

Author: Thomas Walz ,  Barry Morrow
ISBN: 9780809322138
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Thomas Walz tells the story of Bill Sackter, a man who spent nearly half a century in a Minnesota mental institution...  Read More >>

Retarded isn't Stupid, Mom

Retarded isn't Stupid, Mom

Author: Sandra Z. Kaufman
ISBN: 9781557663788
Format: Paperback
$54.99

Sandra Kaufman shares the triumphs and sorrows of her daughter Nicole, a young woman with mental retardation.  Read More >>

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