Disability: social aspects

Demands for excellence and efficiency have created an ableist culture in academia.

Making new friends at work can be tricky - it's tough to predict how people will react to certain situations.

An exploration of early modern accounts of sickness and disability-and what they tell us about our own approach to bodily differenceIn our age of biomedicine, society often treats sickness and disability as problems in need of solution.

The Shakespearean International Yearbook surveys the present state of Shakespeare studies in global contexts, addressing issues that are fundamental to our interpretive encounter with Shakespeare's work and his time.

Redefining Neurodiversity is a transformative exploration of neurodiversity, redefining how we perceive and engage with cognitive differences.

La loi n°2005-102 du 11 février 2005 pour l’égalité des droits et des chances, la participation et la citoyenneté des personnes handicapées crée un bouleversement dans la prise en charge des élèves à besoins particuliers (Suau, 2020).

Following the Second World War, a generation of Seattle parents went against conventional medical wisdom and chose to bring up their children with developmental disabilities in the community.

How do you become an 'amputee', 'war-wounded', 'victim' or 'disabled' person?

In the last 30 years, a distinctive intersection between disability studies - including disability rights advocacy, disability rights activism, and disability law - and disability arts, culture, and media studies has developed.

Given basic commitments to philosophize from lived experience and a shared underlying meliorist impulse, American philosophical traditions seem well-suited to develop nascent philosophical engagement with disability studies.

Practice Issues in Sexuality and Learning Disabilities explores the sexual behaviour of people with learning difficulties and addresses issues of concern such as sexual abuse, HIV and AIDS, service provision for those from ethnic minorities, the development of policy guidelines and the implementation of such guidelines in this intensely personal area.

The Motor Impaired Child provides a wealth of information and practical guidance for teachers on both the social and educational implications of impairment.

There are over thirty million disabled people in Russia and Eastern Europe, yet their voices are rarely heard in scholarly studies of life and well-being in the region.

The church welcomes all--or it should.

Women with disabilities face a double discrimination, both in terms of gender and also of their particular disability.

This book will help prepare the reader to work across disabilities by providing knowledge and training grounded within the ecological framework in four principal areas.

Deaf around the World is a compendium of work by scholars and activists on the creation, context, and form of sign languages, and on the social issues and civil rights of Deaf communities.

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Disability Rhetoric is the first book to view rhetorical theory and history through the lens of disability studies.

This handbook provides a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of the current and emerging research and policy on disability law.

In dear elia Mimi Khuc revolutionizes how we understand mental health.

Discover how entrepreneurship can dismantle the structural, social, cultural, and internalized stigma of disability in this compelling book.

This book explores the series of issues that emerge at the intersection of disability, care and family law.

Educational Outcomes for Students With Disabilities provides readers with the most current perspectives on outcomes that are certain to have an influence on the services they provide.

The first reference book written for the sight-impaired student and those who serve their needs, A Field Guide for the Sight-Impaired Reader explains how to locate, obtain, and integrate all forms of aid to construct a world of reading equal to that of the fully sighted reader.

Many people are shocked upon discovering that tens of thousands of innocent persons in the United States were involuntarily sterilized, forced into institutions, and otherwise maltreated within the course of the eugenic movement (1900-30).

In Care at the End of the World, Jina B.

Empowerment repräsentiert die Stimme der Betroffenen und betrachtet Menschen mit Behinderungen als "Expert*innen in eigener Sache".

Redefining Neurodiversity is a transformative exploration of neurodiversity, redefining how we perceive and engage with cognitive differences.

These original essays focus on fundamental issues and practical implications of the relationship between disability and the good human life.

Published ten years after the first edition, this new Handbook offers topical, and comprehensive information on the welfare systems of all 28 EU member states and their recent reforms, giving the reader an invaluable introduction and basis for comparative welfare research.

A unique resource for rehabilitation engineers, design and building professionals, rehabilitation counselors, gerontologists, psychologists, and other health and mental health professionals, this volume covers the significance and impact of universal design as a change agent for social and health movements.

Social problems are endemic to all societies.

First published in 1985, Disability in Modern Children's Fiction presents a case for the inclusion of a planned element in the mainstream curriculum, specifically designed to encourage positive attitudes and actions towards children with special needs, and for utilising the possibilities inherent in fiction for helping all children to explore their thoughts and feelings in this area.

First published in 1992, Images of Disability on Television examines the frequency and nature of disability on British and American television and how it is perceived and presented by programme makers.

The Routledge Handbook of Critical Obesity Studies is an authoritative and challenging guide to the breadth and depth of critical thinking and theory on obesity.

Service dogs play an important role in society, assisting their handlers in leading independent, fulfilling lives.

Disability or difference?

This book explores the struggle for disability rights, with a focus on Web equality for people with cognitive disabilities.

This book provides the tools for understanding the concerns, fears and biases people with disabilities and bioethicists have.

Disability is a widespread phenomenon, indeed a potentially universal one as life expectancies rise.

This book will be of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in disability studies, childhood studies, medicine and health sciences, and sociology.

This edited collection is the result of the Voices of Individuals: Collectively Exploring Self-determination (VOICES) based at the Centre for Disability Law and Policy, National University of Ireland Galway.

Out of Time?

A groundbreaking volume from leading scholars exploring disability studies using a political theory approach.

Challenging persistent geopolitical asymmetries in feminist knowledge production, this collection depicts collisions between concepts and lived experiences, between academic feminism and political activism, between the West as generalizable and the East as the concrete Other.

Offering a current, comprehensive, and intersectional guide for students, practitioners, and researchers, this book synthesizes existing scholarship on culturally responsive practices that assist in exploring, understanding, and affirming the sexuality(ies) of disabled, chronically ill, neurodivergent, and Mad individuals.

There is a widespread interest in wellbeing, the healthy body and public health.