Disability: Social Aspects

Throughout history, how society treated its disabled and infirm can tell us a great deal about the period. Challenged with any impairment, disease ...

In this groundbreaking book, Jill Harshaw explores the spiritual experiences of people with profound intellectual disabilities with regard to their...

Keep people with dementia fully engaged in daily life and help them maximise remaining functional skills by tapping into their innate abilities and...

Spread out over many years and many different publications, the late author and activist Marta Russell wrote a number of groundbreaking and insight...

The National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) is the principal federal agency supporting applied research, training, and...

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

Imagine being born into a world where fitting in was never an option.Michele Sullivan, one of the most powerful women in philanthropy, was born wit...

This book explores the development of modern transatlantic prosthetic industries in nineteenth and twentieth centuries and reveals how the co-align...

A beautifully written, deeply provocative inquiry into the intersection of animal and disability liberation and the debut of an important new socia...

In this classic bestseller, first published in 2000, Cynthia Peters uses the archetypal concept of the carnival as a framework to interpret the evo...

There are 54.4 million Americans who have disabilities, and 35 million Americans who have a severe disability. For those aged 15 and over, this inc...

In recent years it has become clear that cancer is a major health concern for people with an intellectual disability. In the general population it ...