Disability: Social Aspects

THE POWERFUL MEMOIR FROM HARRY POTTER STUNTMAN DAVID HOLMES, WITH A FOREWORD BY DANIEL RADCLIFFE: AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW! As stunt double to D...

As stunt double to Daniel Radcliffe in the Harry Potter film franchise, stuntman David Holmes helped to move J.K. Rowling's era-defining story from...

Sixteen fractures and eight surgeries caused by brittle bone disease could not stop Ummul Kher from cracking the prestigious IAS exam and joining t...

The Story of What Is Broken Is Whole collects for the first time fifty years of writing by Puerto Rican Jewish feminist and radical thinker Aurora ...

The Story of What Is Broken Is Whole collects for the first time fifty years of writing by Puerto Rican Jewish feminist and radical thinker Aurora ...

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...

This book is about the social condition of Deaf people, told through a Deaf womans autobiography and a series of essays investigating how hearing s...

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...

Young people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) often feel uncomfortable and anxious in social situations, but socializing with classmates and co...

This book sets out to restore the concept of healing to its place within and beyond pain medicine, in chapters authored by keynote speakers to the...

Defining the role of a job coach, this book sets out EU-wide training standards for helping people with disabilities gain and maintain meaningful e...

Making new friends at work can be tricky - it's tough to predict how people will react to certain situations. This 'choose your own response' book ...

Risk Assessment in People with Learning Disabilities, Second Edition reflects legislative updates made over the past decade while continuing to dem...

The long-awaited essay collection from one of the most influential voices in disability activism that detonates a bomb in our collective understand...

'Id encourage anyone who is aspirational for the lives of young people to draw from the wisdom and best practice in [these] pages.' Oli de Botton,...

Imagine a world without sight. Is it dark and gloomy? Is it terrifying and isolating? Or is it simply a state of not seeing, which we have demon...

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 global rates of autism diagnosis rise, dominant cultural representations continue to define autism as a tragic neurological disorder. And mother...

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

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

Winner of the 2013 Outstanding Qualitative Book Award by the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.Signs of Hope tells the story of a narra...

Thousands of wounded servicemen returned to Japan following the escalation of Japanese military aggression in China in July 1937. Tens of thousands...

In the last 30 years, a distinctive intersection between disability studies including disability rights advocacy, disability rights activism, and ...

The onslaught of neoliberalism, austerity measures and cuts, impact of climate change, protracted conflicts and ongoing refugee crisis, rise of far...

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

Receiving education and training that lead to a meaningful job, having a career, and being a valued contributor to a professional environment is ta...

This book aims to unveil the dimensions of work-life balance for female academics in Bangladesh exploring both work and family related factors that...

Disability as Diversity: Developing Cultural Competence reveals why disability is a cultural experience, rather than merely a medical status. Conce...