Disability: social aspects books

The measurement of health status and its implications can comprise a number of dimensions: various concepts of health...  Read More >>

Beauty is the Beast examines the stigmatism of children who deviate from American standards for acceptable physical...  Read More >>

This work focuses on the question of how health care teams can assist patients and their families in coping with...  Read More >>

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A comprehensive, accessible introduction to the sociology of health and illness. Aggleton contrasts bio-medical...  Read More >>

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The philosophy of normalization and promotion of the plight of children and adults with mental handicaps has drawn...  Read More >>

Sets out the information advice and step-by-step instructions needed to teach people with disabilities how to develop...  Read More >>

This is a personal account of what it is like to be deaf in a hearing world. The book discusses such issues as:...  Read More >>

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The author shares her first-hand experience, her feelings and the knowledge she gathered when she finally decided...  Read More >>

Finally, a number of chapters explore topics of increasing concern to both health care workers and administrators,...  Read More >>

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Written for health care administrators with little accounting or finance background, this book provides a readable,...  Read More >>

A unique manual for managers in health care facilities, this volume contains model policies and procedures found...  Read More >>

In this book I present a series of eleven essays written between 1978 and 1987 on subjects relevant to the anthropology...  Read More >>

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Andrew Scull has published some notable works in the field of psychiatric disorder. His latest volume draws together...  Read More >>

This extremely valuable collection of fourteen chapters is divided into two sections, with the first section covering...  Read More >>

Focusing on the biological determinants of mortality and on the methodological issues involved in studying changing...  Read More >>

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The editors of this remarkable volume have collected 18 essays by humanists about Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome....  Read More >>

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