Disability: Social Aspects

Although the field of disability services and societal understanding of disability issues have advanced in recent decades there remain controversia...

Disability is of central concern to the developing world but has largely been under-represented in global development debates, discourses and negot...

Anna Ott died in the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane in 1893. She had enjoyed status and financial success first as a physician's wife and ...

The reasons behind the increase in autism diagnoses have become hotly contested in the media as well as within the medical, scholarly, and autistic...

As Americans--both civilians and veterans--worked to determine the meanings of identity for blind veterans of World War I, they bound cultural cons...

This volume puts disability and labour at the centre of historical enquiry. It offers fresh perspectives on the history of disability and labour in...

In Menace to the Future, Jess Whatcott traces the link between US disability institutions and early twentieth-century eugenicist ideology, demonstr...

In Menace to the Future, Jess Whatcott traces the link between US disability institutions and early twentieth-century eugenicist ideology, demonstr...

In The Terrible We Cameron Awkward-Rich thinks with the bad feelings and mad habits of thought that persist in both transphobic discourse and trans...