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Despite the progress of decades-old disability rights policy, including the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act, threats continue to undermine the wellbeing of this population. The U.S. is, thu……続きを見る

Elephant's Kitchen - An Aspergirl's Study in Difference is about a quiet teenage girl named Delphine who has Asperger's, but just as with the television shows Bones and The Big Bang Theory, the cond……続きを見る

Disaster Public Health and Older People introduces professionals, students and fieldworkers to the science and art of promoting health and well-being among older people in the context of humanitaria……続きを見る

This book explores the diverse ways in which disability activism and advocacy are experienced and practised by people with disabilities and their allies. Contributors to the book explore the very di……続きを見る

Modern Western culture is saturated with images, imprinting visual standards of concepts such as beauty and femininity onto our collective consciousness. Blindness Through the Looking Glass examines……続きを見る

The boom in trained service animal use and access has transformed the lives of travelers with disabilities. As a result, tens of thousands of people in the United States and Canada enjoy travel opti……続きを見る

The study of disability has traditionally been influenced mainly by medical and psychological models. The aim of this new text, Disability and Society, is to open up the debate by introducing altern……続きを見る

Undoing Ableism is a sourcebook for teaching about disability and anti-ableism in K–12 classrooms. Conceptually grounded in disability studies, critical pedagogy, and social justice education, this ……続きを見る

Se estima que 15% de la población mundial, esto es, poco más de mil millones de personas, padece alguna forma de discapacidad. De ellas, la mayoría aún lucha por no ser discriminada social y laboral……続きを見る

Contemporary research in philosophy of religion is dominated by traditional problems such as the nature of evil, arguments against theism, issues of foreknowledge and freedom, the divine attributes,……続きを見る

Real-life stories of disability, discrimination, and the fight for equality. From the Periphery presents raw, painful, yet surprisingly funny and deeply inspiring first-person narratives of over thi……続きを見る

Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon and received the Distinguished Flying Cross in the Korean War and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. At 88, his legacy is secure. On earth, it is another matter. “The ……続きを見る

This book takes a look at how Satan tries to control our lives and how Satan keeps us from doing what God wants us to. In addition, it looks at the two separate realms of spiritual and physical real……続きを見る

Palle Hansen bliver født i 1950 med muskelsvind, og hans barndom er præget af hospitalsindlæggelser, af opvæksten med en mor, der er alvorligt sindslidende samt af sin fars tragiske død i 1957. I Et……続きを見る

A Walk with Liam is one mother’s raw, unapologetic description of raising a special needs child from conception to adulthood. It is filled with joy, despair, laughter, and soul-searching. Most of al……続きを見る

Victoria Freeman was only four when her parents followed medical advice and sent her sister away to a distant, overcrowded institution. Martha was not yet two, but in 1960s Ontario there was little ……続きを見る

Un libro sull'autismo e in particolare, tra storie di amore e di amicizia, sull'effetto collaterale che produce quando scaraventa all'aria una famiglia: la solitudine. Una domanda, apparentemente in……続きを見る

A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories in this powerful social justice memoir to paint a ……続きを見る

Jean Vanier’s spiritual vision and sense of humour shaped L’Arche, but the organization was also informed by its surprising history with the United Church of Canada. In Tender to the World Carolyn W……続きを見る

Feminist Perspectives on Disability provides a unique introduction to the key debates in relation to both feminism and disability. The author considers contemporary similarities, differences and con……続きを見る

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the methodological, theoretical, and meta-theoretical considerations and guidelines involved in undertaking institutional ethnographic work involving p……続きを見る

Ten autistic self-advocates share their experiences with alternative forms of communication such as rapid prompting method (RPM) and facilitated communication (FC), both highly controversial. Their ……続きを見る

This fully revised and expanded second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies takes a multidisciplinary approach to disability and provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview ……続きを見る

Examining the ways in which societies treat their most vulnerable members has long been regarded as revealing of the bedrock beliefs and values that guide the social order. However, academic researc……続きを見る

From the challenges of travelling when blind to becoming a parent for the first time, Kika & Me is the moving, heart-warming and inspirational story of Dr Amit Patel**’s sight-loss journey and how o……続きを見る

Challenging persistent geopolitical asymmetries in feminist knowledge production, this collection depicts collisions between concepts and lived experiences, between academic feminism and political a……続きを見る

In 2006, Social Work Education produced the first special edition (vol. 25, no. 4) on service user and carer involvement in social work education, with all of the articles coming from the United Kin……続きを見る

The onslaught of neoliberalism, austerity measures and cuts, impact of climate change, protracted conflicts and ongoing refugee crisis, rise of far right and populist movements have all negatively i……続きを見る

This volume explores how disability is seen, written about, read and understood through literature and translation. Foregrounding the asymmetrical world of power relations, it delves into the act of……続きを見る

Disability as Diversity: Developing Cultural Competence reveals why disability is a cultural experience, rather than merely a medical status. Conceptual models of disability have evolved into a comp……続きを見る