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This book combines intersectional perspectives and urban research to demonstrate the importance of intersectionality as a concept that can complement “refigurational” understandings of social change……続きを見る

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. As populations age around the world, there is an urgent need to address the inadequate and unequal provision of care and support to older a……続きを見る

It’s time to remake the world – the ground-breaking book on what steps we should all be taking for the autistic people in our lives. The modern world is built for neurotypicals: needless noise, brig……続きを見る

'I heard a horrible screaming sound, like an animal being slaughtered ... then I realised it was me.' When Katie Piper was 24, her life was near perfect. Young and beautiful, she was well on her way……続きを見る

The right to participate in cultural life is profoundly rooted in international human rights law, and, with regard to persons with disabilities, it is enunciated in Article 30 of the UN Convention o……続きを見る

The Museum Accessibility Spectrum engages with discussions around access to museums and argues that what is impairing the progress of museums towards inclusion is the current ableist model of access……続きを見る

**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE NAUTILUS GOLD AWARD “A powerful and provocative testament to the diverse coalition of minds we’ll need to face the mounting challenges of the twenty……続きを見る

This volume explores the life of Bjargey “Bíbí” Kristjánsdóttir (1927–1999), an Icelandic woman with intellectual disabilities, through analysis of her autobiography and personal archive on the basi……続きを見る

This book explores how dementia studies relates to dementia’s growing public profile and corresponding research economy. The book argues that a neuropsychiatric biopolitics of dementia positions dem……続きを見る

Disabled people are at greater risk than non-disabled people in our climate crisis. This is due to stigma along with barriers imposed by our society and the environment. Yet disabled people have lar……続きを見る

This book tells the stories of disabled people who have been influential in creating modern mass media. Through the voices of key disabled media makers and collaborators, the author highlights the w……続きを見る

ON the 22d of September I was asked by the World if I could have myself committed to one of the asylums for the insane in New York, with a view to writing a plain and unvarnished narrative of the tr……続きを見る

Autism is a profoundly contested idea. The focus of this book is not what autism is or what autistic people are, but rather, it grapples with the central question: what does it take for autistic peo……続きを見る

Claude Revert est atteint de la maladie de Hirschsprung, une maladie rare invalidante qui le destinait à l’immobilité. Abandonné par sa mère à la naissance, il subit de lourdes opérations dès ses pr……続きを見る

Véritable expérience sensorielle, cet ouvrage invite à appréhender toute la diversité et la variabilité des maladies rares. Mélanges de différentes techniques picturales, les compositions de Lucie A……続きを見る

A true sensory experience, this book invites us to discover the diversity and variability of rare diseases. Using a mixture of different visual art techniques, Lucie Albon’s artwork conveys the full……続きを見る

In Intoxicated Mel Y. Chen explores the ongoing imperial relationship between race, sexuality, and disability. They focus on nineteenth-century biopolitical archives in England and Australia to show……続きを見る

Arno is an adorable little sparrow full of energy. But one day, the wind told his parents that Arno had a disease that would take away the beautiful things he had acquired over the years. However, d……続きを見る

In Undoing Suicidism, Alexandre Baril argues that suicidal people are oppressed by what he calls structural suicidism, a hidden oppression that, until now, has been unnamed and under-theorized. Each……続きを見る

At snack time, by the fireplace, Grandmother Wolf tells her wolf pups the story of Wolfy, a strange little wolf who had difficulty speaking and understanding certain things. A little wolf with a hea……続きを見る

With the advent of the human genome, cloning, stem-cell research and many other developments in the way we think of the body, disability studies provides an entirely new way of thinking about the bo……続きを見る

Noncommunicable Diseases: A Compendium introduces readers to noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) – what they are, their burden, their determinants and how they can be prevented and controlled. Focusing ……続きを見る

When the two elder members of a family of wild boars have to look after two small boarlets affected by a disease that prevents them from seeing properly and having a sense of smell, things do not go……続きを見る

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Technology is quickly becoming an integral part of care systems across the world and is frequently cited in policy discourse as pivotal……続きを見る

Alcantara, Shinohara, and their contributors evaluate the current state of diversity and inclusion (D&I) within business and higher education in Japan, and the importance of D&I to the growth of Jap……続きを見る

Subgroups of older persons benefit from the protection included in human rights instruments that have been created to address the rights of vulnerable groups of which an older person is a member; ho……続きを見る

The health sector is known to be one of the major contributors towards the greenhouse gas emissions causing the climate crisis, the greatest health threat of the 21st century. This volume positions ……続きを見る

This book puts the critical into dementia studies. It makes a timely and novel contribution to the field, offering a thought-provoking critique of current thinking and debate on dementia. Collective……続きを見る

Understanding Disability Throughout History explores seldom-heard voices from the past by studying the hidden lives of disabled people before the concept of disability existed culturally, socially a……続きを見る

This book explores the societal resistance to accessibility for persons with disabilities, and tries to set an example of how to study exclusion in a time when numerous policies promise inclusion. W……続きを見る