Disability: Social Aspects

We often think of music in terms of sounds intentionally organized into patterns, but music performed in signed languages poses considerable challe...

People with variations of sex characteristics (VSC) are born with chromosomal, gonadal and/or anatomical diversities that do not fit the typical de...

People with variations of sex characteristics (VSC) are born with chromosomal, gonadal and/or anatomical diversities that do not fit the typical de...

Does the Internet fundamentally change the flow of politically relevant information, even in authoritarian regimes? If so, does it alter the attitu...

Into the twenty-first century, millions of disabled people and people experiencing mental distress were segregated from the rest of society and con...

The Museum Accessibility Spectrum volume engages with discussions around access to museums and argues that what is impairing the progress of museum...

The Museum Accessibility Spectrum volume engages with discussions around access to museums and argues that what is impairing the progress of museum...

While there are many introductions to disability and disability studies, most presume an advanced academic knowledge of a range of subjects. Beginn...

Over recent decades an increasing amount of attention has been paid to identifying and meeting the individual support needs of mental health servic...

Sports are ubiquitous in American society, and given their prominence in the culture, it is easy to understand how most youth in the United States ...

This book provides the reader with a ground-breaking understanding of disability and social movements. By describing how disability is philosophica...

The purpose of this book is to challenge people (service providers, people with a hearing disability and those who advocate for them) to reconsider...

In the decades following the collapse of state socialism at the end of 1980s, disabled people in Central and Eastern Europe endured economic margin...

This book focuses on the clinical treatment of disability from French researchers in the fields of psychology, anthropology, psychiatry, and philos...

How does the sudden onset of disability impact the sense of self in a person whose identity was, at least in part, predicated on the possession of ...

How does the sudden onset of disability impact the sense of self in a person whose identity was, at least in part, predicated on the possession of ...

In 1930, neurosyphilis struck an unsuspecting Mabel Smith. Doctors at the Central State Hospital for the Insane in Indianapolis turned to malaria t...

In 1930, neurosyphilis struck an unsuspecting Mabel Smith. Doctors at the Central State Hospital for the Insane in Indianapolis turned to malaria t...

Inaccessible Access ethnographically addresses barriers to inclusion within knowledge-making. It focuses on the social, environmental, communicativ...

This book is a critical disability studies examination of the lived experience of chronic pain, engaging with and making a significant contribution...