Disability: Social Aspects

In a critical intervention into the bioethics debate over human enhancement, philosopher Melinda Hall tackles the claim that the expansion and deve...

This book helps in ...building a bridge between the networks...The topics of aging and disabilities are multifaceted and therefore may be approache...

For people who are living with disability, including various forms of chronic diseases and chronic pain, daily tasks like lifting a glass of water ...

The content of news has not changed much over the last century--politicians, celebrities, wars, crime, and sports dominate past and present headlin...

Critical Theory and Disability explores social and ontological issues encountered by present-day disabled people, applying ideas from disability st...

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

Shared Musical Lives makes the case for the epistemological and ethical significance of musical experience. Music can be a source of self-knowledge...

What is the direct impact that disability studies has on the lives of disabled people today? The editors and contributors to this essential antholo...

What is the direct impact that disability studies has on the lives of disabled people today? The editors and contributors to this essential antholo...

Throughout the history of the United States, work-based social welfare practices have served to affirm the moral value of work. In the late ninetee...

Drawing on rehabilitation publications, novels by both famous and obscure American writers, and even the prosthetic masks of a classically trained ...

Introduces key ideas and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions in the emerging field of disability media studies Disability Media Stud...