Disability: social aspects books

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An Ordinary Future: Margaret Mead, the Problem of Disability, and a Child Born Different

An Ordinary Future: Margaret Mead, the Problem of Disability,...

Author: Thomas W Pearson
ISBN: 9780520388284
Format: Hardback
$157.95

This vivid portrait of contemporary parenting blends memoir and cultural analysis to explore evolving ideas of disability...  Read More >>

Out of the Horrors of War: Disability Politics in World War II America

Out of the Horrors of War: Disability Politics in World...

Author: Audra Jennings
ISBN: 9781512825510
Format: Paperback
$72.60

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Exploring Sexuality and Disability: A Guide for Human Service Professionals

Exploring Sexuality and Disability: A Guide for Human...

Author: Shanna Katz Kattari
ISBN: 9781032311517
Format: Paperback
$75.99

Offering a current, comprehensive and intersectional guide for students, practitioners, and researchers, this book...  Read More >>

Tōjisha Manga: Japan’s Graphic Memoirs of Brain and Mental Health

Tōjisha Manga: Japan’s Graphic Memoirs of Brain and...

Author: Yoshiko Okuyama
ISBN: 9783031008429
Format: Paperback
$116.41

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Madness: American Protestant Responses to Mental Illness

Madness: American Protestant Responses to Mental Illness...

Author: Heather H. Vacek
ISBN: 9781481300582
Format: Paperback
$77.00

Madness is a sin. Those with emotional disabilities are shunned. Mental illness is not the church’s problem. All...  Read More >>

Disability, Providence, and Ethics: Bridging Gaps, Transforming Lives

Disability, Providence, and Ethics: Bridging Gaps, Transforming...

Author: Hans S. Reinders
ISBN: 9781481300667
Format: Paperback
$93.50

Guides readers away from an identification of disability with tragedy - via lament - to the possibility of theological...  Read More >>

Patterns of Residential Care: Sociological Studies in Institutions for Handicapped Children

Patterns of Residential Care: Sociological Studies in...

Author: Roy D. King (Roy King is Emeritus Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Cambridge Institute of Criminology .) ,  Norma V. Raynes
ISBN: 9781032568591
Format: Hardback
$194.00

First published in 1971, this title describes a series of studies dealing with the upbringing of children in residential...  Read More >>

The Routledge International Handbook of Intersectionality Studies

The Routledge International Handbook of Intersectionality...

Author: Kathy Davis ,  Helma Lutz (Goethe-Universität, Germany)
ISBN: 9780367545048
Format: Hardback
$452.00

This volume maps the history and travels of intersectionality as a theoretical paradigm in gender studies and feminist...  Read More >>

Hidden Struggles Women And Girls with Physical Disabilities: Hidden Struggles Women And Girls with Physical Disabilities

Hidden Struggles Women And Girls with Physical Disabilities:...

Author: Humera Nuzhat
ISBN: 9788196525446
Format: Paperback
$84.48

In a world bustling with activity, where stories of courage and triumph often take center stage, there exists a...  Read More >>

Touch the Future: A Manifesto in Essays

Touch the Future: A Manifesto in Essays

Author: John Lee Clark ,  Perry Daniels
ISBN: 9798212936705
Format: Audio
$176.85

A revelatory collection of essays on the DeafBlind experience and the untapped potential of a new tactile language....  Read More >>

Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Laws and Policies

Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Laws and...

Author: Louis Harrison
ISBN: 9781647266745
Format: Hardback
$409.07

Persons with disability include those people who have long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments....  Read More >>

Share the Road

Share the Road

Author: Janet Lawson ,  Dan Swearingen
ISBN: 9798987650813
Format: Paperback
$58.08

Searching for academic and vocational programs for their post-high school autistic son, Lawson and Swearingen found...  Read More >>

Sip by Sip: Candid Conversations With People Diagnosed as Adults with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)

Sip by Sip: Candid Conversations With People Diagnosed...

Author: Patricia Kasper
ISBN: 9781916787872
Format: Paperback
$47.49

"""What an incredibly insightful book that speaks from the hearts of a special population of individuals who have...  Read More >>

Letters with Smokie: Blindness and More-Than-Human Relations

Letters with Smokie: Blindness and More-Than-Human Relations...

Author: Rod Michalko ,  Dan Goodley
ISBN: 9781772840346
Format: Hardback
$184.80

Letters with Smokie captures an epistolic exchange between Dan Goodley and Rod Michalko, or rather, Rod Michalko's...  Read More >>

The Positive Psychology of Personal Factors: Implications for Understanding Disability

The Positive Psychology of Personal Factors: Implications...

Author: Michael L. Wehmeyer ,  Dana S. Dunn
ISBN: 9781793634672
Format: Paperback
$70.99

Personal factors are an element of social-ecological models of disability but have not been well defined or described....  Read More >>

Samuel Beckett and Disability Performance

Samuel Beckett and Disability Performance

Author: Hannah Simpson
ISBN: 9783031041358
Format: Paperback
$343.17

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Introduction to Deaf Culture

Introduction to Deaf Culture

Author: Thomas K. Holcomb (Professor of Deaf Studies, Professor of Deaf Studies, Ohlone College, Fremont, California)
ISBN: 9780197503232
Format: Paperback
$158.95

"""You are about to enter the realm of Deaf culture, a world that may be completely new to you. Intriguingly, insiders...  Read More >>

Making a Home: Assisted Living in the Community for Young Disabled People

Making a Home: Assisted Living in the Community for...

Author: Jen Powley
ISBN: 9781773635958
Format: Paperback
$39.95

This book documents Jen Powley's fight for young disabled people to live in the community rather than being institutionalized...  Read More >>

The Psychological and Social Impact of Chronic Illness and Disability

The Psychological and Social Impact of Chronic Illness...

Author: Irmo Marini ,  Allison R. Fleming
ISBN: 9780826151124
Format: Paperback
$202.00

Reflects the most significant and fundamental shifts in the experience of disability in human history. With the...  Read More >>

Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole

Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual...

Author: Julia Watts Belser
ISBN: 9780807006757
Format: Hardback
$79.07

"""A spiritual companion and political manifesto that cuts through objectification and inspiration alike to offer...  Read More >>

A History of Disability and Art Education

A History of Disability and Art Education

Author: Claire Penketh
ISBN: 9780367537913
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Drawing on recent theoretical frameworks from critical disability studies and art education including normalcy,...  Read More >>

Uncharted: How Scientists Navigate Their Own Health, Research, and Experiences of Bias

Uncharted: How Scientists Navigate Their Own Health,...

Author: Skylar Bayer ,  Gabriela Serrato Marks
ISBN: 9780231203630
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Uncharted is a collection of powerful first-person stories by current and former scientists with disabilities or...  Read More >>

The Loss of Small White Clouds: Dementia in Contemporary Performance

The Loss of Small White Clouds: Dementia in Contemporary...

Author: Morgan Batch
ISBN: 9781032252018
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This volume seeks to instigate a discussion about dementia in theatre.  Read More >>

Uncharted: How Scientists Navigate Their Own Health, Research, and Experiences of Bias

Uncharted: How Scientists Navigate Their Own Health,...

Author: Skylar Bayer ,  Gabriela Serrato Marks
ISBN: 9780231203623
Format: Hardback
$198.95

Uncharted is a collection of powerful first-person stories by current and former scientists with disabilities or...  Read More >>

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