Disability: Social Aspects

This is a seamless transition to the Guides Sixth. Ease your transition from Guides Fifth to Guides Sixth by first understanding and assessing the ...

This book is about the employment of people with disabilities in the United States and the important role of employer practices. Nearly one in five...

The first international, cross-disciplinary book to explore and understand the lives of parents with intellectual disabilities, their children, and...

The first international, cross-disciplinary book to explore and understand the lives of parents with intellectual disabilities, their children, and...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.Disability and the Posth...

Although scholars in the environmental humanities have been exploring the dichotomy between wild and built environments for several years, few have...

In Building Theory in Political Communication, Gadi Wolfsfeld, Tamir Sheafer, and Scott Althaus present the first generalizable conceptual framewor...

One in five families has a child with special health care needs-but medical and human service professionals often don't get the training they need ...

Speculation around the health of Paul the Apostle has been present since soon after his death. Recently scholars have understood Paul to be disable...

From workplace accidents to polio epidemics and new waves of immigration to the returning veterans of World War II, the first half of the twentieth...

Bodily suffering and patient, Christlike attitudes towards that suffering were among the key characteristics of sainthood throughout the medieval p...

Engaging, funny, and unflinching essays about coming of age as a transplant patient and living each day as a giftAdina Talve-Goodman was born with ...

'Defiant and dazzling'Freya Bromley, author of The Tidal Year'Essential reading'Jessica J. Lee, author of Turning'It raises the standard of nature ...

This book explores the intricate connections that link the current digitalization of manufacturing to our daily lives and identities as members of ...

In Undoing Suicidism, Alexandre Baril argues that suicidal people are oppressed by what he calls structural suicidism, a hidden oppression that, un...

The new edition of this acclaimed text is an up-to-date introduction to the key themes, research, and controversies in disability studies. The auth...

Although it is commonly believed that deafness and disability limits a person in a variety of ways, Valuing Deaf Worlds in Urban India describes th...

Is there a gene for autism? Despite a billion-dollar, twenty-year effort to find outand the more elusive the answer, the greater the search seems t...

A history of design that is often overlookeduntil we need it Have you ever hit the big blue button to activate automatic doors? Have you ever used ...

The pressures Asian Americans feel to be socially and economically exceptional include an unspoken mandate to always be healthy. Nowhere is this mo...

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

How might we develop products made with and by disabled users rather than for them? Could we change living and working spaces to make them accessi...

How might we develop products made with and by disabled users rather than for them? Could we change living and working spaces to make them accessi...

ASALH 2023 Book Prize Finalist Reveals how disability and disablement have shaped Black social life in America Through both law and custom, the col...

Uses literature to understand and remake our ethics regarding nonhuman animals, old human beings, disabled human beings, and cloned posthumans Lite...

What prenatal tests and down syndrome reveal about our reproductive choices When Alison Piepmeierscholar of feminism and disability studies, and mo...

Disability-inclusive development is an essential condition for a sustainable future. In 2015, the United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustai...

The history of civil rights for people with intellectual disabilities in 20th century America

How musicians can be disabled and how musicality itself can be disabling

Deaf people are usually regarded by the hearing world as having a lack, as missing a sense. Yet a definition of deaf people based on hearing loss o...

Winner, Body and Embodiment Award presented by the American Sociological Association Imagine yourself without a facethe task seems impossible. The ...