Disability: social aspects

Exploring the disability history of slavery Time and again, antebellum Americans justified slavery and white supremacy by linking blackness to disability, defectiveness, and dependency.

Long before the English became involved in the African slave trade, they imagined Africans as monstrous and deformed beings.

Anna Ott died in the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane in 1893.

Mad Studies: The Basics provides an introductory account of a field that emerged from, and must remain grounded within, community knowledge, activism, and the perspectives of those who have experienced madness and mental health systems.

Educational opportunities for disabled children remain a vital contemporary issue in British social policy.

Joy, pain, celebration, and grief are constant companions on the journey of caregiving.

'Your book is the "e;really good book.

The field of biomedical technology has experienced rapid growth in recent years.

In churches today, those on the autism spectrum are often at best overlooked by neurotypical church members or at worst infantilized.

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERBest Books of the Year, GuardianThe poignant story of the visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War's injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgeryFrom the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind's military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities.

Presenting cutting-edge research and scholarship, this extensive volume covers everything from abstract theorising about the meanings of responsibility and how we blame, to analysing criminal law and justice responses, and factors that impact individual responsibility.

Part of Palgrave's Interagency Working in Health and Social Care series, this book explores the policy and practice which frames work with disabled people.

Disability luminary Mike Oliver is joined by Colin Barnes in this agenda-setting response to a capitalist society faced with globalisation, financial instability and lower public expenditure.

The Psychology of Blindness and Visual Culture: Towards a New Ecological Model of Visual Impairment advances the debate regarding the inclusion and wellbeing of people with visual impairment (PVI) through looking at the psychological nature of visual culture and its effects on the lived experience.

Winner 2024 Outstanding Recent Contribution in Social Psychology Award, Social Psychology Section, American Sociological Association Winner 2024 Melvin Pollner Prize, Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Section, American Sociological Association As autism has grown in prevalence, so too have our attempts to make sense of it.

The first social history of disability and difference in American adoption, from the Progressive Era to the end of the twentieth century.

The queer recluse, the shambling farmer, the clannish hill folk-white rural populations have long disturbed the American imagination, alternately revered as moral, healthy, and hardworking, and feared as antisocial or socially uncouth.

This is the first book to systematically review, update, organize, and critique the literature on the social psychology of disability in 30 years.

This is the first book to systematically review, update, organize, and critique the literature on the social psychology of disability in 30 years.

Despite international and national guarantees of equal rights, there remains a great deal to be done to achieve global employment equality for individuals with disabilities.

Despite international and national guarantees of equal rights, there remains a great deal to be done to achieve global employment equality for individuals with disabilities.

This book examines Japanese cultural beliefs about disability and related socialization practices as they impact the experiences of elementary school-aged children.

In Approaches to Social Research: The Case of Deaf Studies, Alys Young and Bogusia Temple explore the relationship between key methodological debates in social research and the special context of studies concerning d/Deaf people(s).

Attention to embodiment and the religious significance of bodies is one of the most significant shifts in contemporary theology.

Teaching Music to Students with Autism is a comprehensive resource for everyone who works with students with autism within the music classroom.

Approaching disability as a cultural construction rather than a medical pathology, this book studies the impact of disability and concepts of disability on composers, performers, and listeners with disabilities, as well as on discourse about music and works of music themselves.

Approaching disability as a cultural construction rather than a medical pathology, this book studies the impact of disability and concepts of disability on composers, performers, and listeners with disabilities, as well as on discourse about music and works of music themselves.

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.

Attention to embodiment and the religious significance of bodies is one of the most significant shifts in contemporary theology.

The assessment and treatment of mental health concerns for Deaf individuals has been largely ignored and/or misunderstood by many mental health professionals.

Roughly 54 million people with disabilities live in the U.

The Politics of Autism investigates the truths and fictions of public understanding about autism, questioning apparent realities too sensitive or impolitic to challenge.

The Politics of Autism investigates the truths and fictions of public understanding about autism, questioning apparent realities too sensitive or impolitic to challenge.

Clinicians outside of rehabilitation psychology do not receive training on how to work with clients with disabilities.

Clinicians outside of rehabilitation psychology do not receive training on how to work with clients with disabilities.

The Oxford Handbook of Disability Studies represents a comprehensive state of current research for the field of Disability Studies and Music.

Teaching Music to Students with Autism is a comprehensive resource for everyone who works with students with autism within the music classroom.

Millions of people and their families are affected by mental illness; it causes untold pain and severely impairs their ability to function in the world.

The use of sign language has a long history.

Fear, rage, courage, discrimination.

Traditional approaches to vocational rehabilitation, such as skills training classes, job clubs, and sheltered employment, have not been successful in helping people with severe mental illness gain competitive employment.

Winner 2024 Outstanding Recent Contribution in Social Psychology Award, Social Psychology Section, American Sociological Association Winner 2024 Melvin Pollner Prize, Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Section, American Sociological Association As autism has grown in prevalence, so too have our attempts to make sense of it.

Beyond Bias offers the first scholarly study of contemporary right-wing documentary film and video.

Beyond Bias offers the first scholarly study of contemporary right-wing documentary film and video.

What is the impact of an infant's diminished hearing on the infant and its parents?

When people who interact do not share the same abilities, orientations, or beliefs, the results are often disastrous, leaving everyone involved feeling misunderstood, underappreciated, and resentful.

Drawing on rehabilitation publications, novels by both famous and obscure American writers, and even the prosthetic masks of a classically trained sculptor, Great War Prostheses in American Literature and Culture addresses the ways in which prosthetic devices were designed, promoted, and depicted in America in the years during and after the First World War.

Drawing on rehabilitation publications, novels by both famous and obscure American writers, and even the prosthetic masks of a classically trained sculptor, Great War Prostheses in American Literature and Culture addresses the ways in which prosthetic devices were designed, promoted, and depicted in America in the years during and after the First World War.

Invalid Modernism contributes to an intersectional moment in disability studies by looking at modernist aesthetics through a 'defamiliar body'.

Invalid Modernism contributes to an intersectional moment in disability studies by looking at modernist aesthetics through a 'defamiliar body'.