Disability: social aspects

The Dynamics of Managing Diversity and Inclusion was one of the first books to respond to growing academic coverage of the topic of diversity management at degree level.

Digital Media as Ambient Therapy explores the ways "e;mental illness"e; can emerge from our relationships (with ourselves, others, and the world), to address the concern around what kind of relationality is conducive for "e;mental health"e; and what role digital technologies can play in fostering such relationality.

An interdisciplinary investigation, that explores how disability figured in seventeenth-century debates about justice and salvation.

This book enables readers to confidently discuss and understand disability as part of the broader societal conversation on diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Das Projekt ''Begleitete Elternschaft'' gibt intellektuell beeinträchtigten Eltern die Chance, ein realistisches Familienleben zu gestalten, welches das Wohl des Kindes sicherstellt.

This book promotes a positive message for people with Down syndrome across the world.

First published in 1981, this book was written to help parents and teachers to participate in child-based mobility programmes, covering the needs of visually-handicapped children from pre-school to adulthood.

Krankhaft sensitive, vom Normalen abweichende Wesen erspüren zuweilen die Unzulänglichkeiten der Welt viel intensiver als andere, und ihre Reaktionen können extrem sein.

Bridging the chasm between the disabled and a just and fair society takes skill, dedication, and a deep understanding of the issues.

Fear, rage, courage, discrimination.

Dementia is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the 21st century.

Choice and equity of access to primary and secondary health care services is a priority within all aspects of the NHS, however it must be recognised that for some people access to health care can pose difficulties.

Disability or difference?

This timely book explores the spatial and social injustices within our streets, malls, schools, and public institutions.

The realities surrounding the psychological experience of disability, plus the intervention techniques used to resolve some of the problems, have changed dramatically since the publication of the first edition of this classic text.

An authoritative, evidence-based overview of the health needs of people with intellectual disabilities and how to manage these needs appropriately.

There has been much debate about mental health law reform and mental capacity legislation in recent years with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities also having a major impact on thinking about the issue.

How can we better support and promote inclusivity for those living with Dyspraxia?

First published in 1979, this book concerns itself primarily with the mothers of mentally handicapped children.

As a response to real or imagined subordination, popular culture reflects the everyday experience of ordinary people and has the capacity to subvert the hegemonic order.

This book explores how the complex scenario of platforms, practices and content in the contemporary digital landscape is shaping participatory cultures of health and illness.

Forty-five contributions from renowned international specialists in the field provide readers with expert analysis of the core issues related to the welfare state, including regional depictions of welfare states around the globe.

Is a decline in vision and hearing just a "e;fact of life"e; for people as we age?

What ails the NDIS?

We are used to thinking that most people have the capacity to make their own decisions; that they should be free to decide how to live their lives; and that it is a good thing to be self-sufficient.

Winner of the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing Award 2021 In 2016, a United Nations report found the UK government culpable for 'grave and systematic violations' of disabled people's rights.

This volume provides an in-depth, qualitative exploration of familial entrepreneurship as an innovative employment model, being established by families in response to difficulties faced by individuals with developmental disabilities in entering the labor market.

Exploring contemporary theory and practice surrounding loss and bereavement for people with intellectual disabilities (ID), this book brings together international contributors with a range of academic, professional and personal experience.

First published in 1992, The Creatures Time Forgot examines the representation of disabled people - in advertising, particularly that produced by disability charities, and in the work of photographers such as Diane Arbus and Gary Winogrand.

This book presents a timely and innovative exploration of one of the first human rights articles about data production and processing: the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities article 31, 'Statistics and data collection'.

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This empirically grounded book presents a critical, interdisciplinary perspective on social and cultural issues related to the health and wellbeing of people with learning disabilities.

Bringing together scholars from film and television studies, media and cultural studies, literary studies, medical humanities, and disability studies, Discourses of Care collectively examines how the analysis of media texts and practices can contribute to scholarship on and understandings of health and social care, and how existing research focusing on the ethics of care can inform our understanding of media.

The provision of assistive technology is an important individual and collective service of the welfare state.

This volume examines the shift toward positive and more accurate portrayals of mental illness in entertainment media, asking where these succeed and considering where more needs to be done.

This edited collection of contributions explores non-normative genders, sexualities, and relationality among Autistic people.

This book focuses on the lived realities of disabled mothers to examine how they navigate their multiple competing responsibilities and identities.

Philosophical anthropology investigates what makes us human, but it has produced accounts that exclude some members of our species.

This book tells the stories of nine disabled leaders who, by force of personality and concrete achievement, have made us think differently about disability.

This text is a critical and empirically-based introduction to disability studies.

Fear, rage, courage, discrimination.

Social inequalities are often reproduced in sport and leisure contexts.

Despite decades of activism, resistance, and education, both feminists and gender rebels continue to experience personal, political, institutional, and cultural resistance to rights, recognition, and respect.

At first glance it may seem that the Hebrew prophets offer little resolution on contemporary concerns of inclusivity and defense for persons deemed "e;other.

Taking Care, based on twenty-six interviews and other autobiographical narratives, challenges the negative stereotypes about mothers with disabilities.