Disability: social aspects Books

The Lost Senses: Deafness and Blindness is a book written by John Kitto that explores the experiences of individuals who are deaf and blind. The book delves into the challenges that people with these sensory impairments face in their daily lives,...

Autistic Symphony offers a unique look at the fascinating subject of autism. Challenging the psychiatric and scientific perspectives that focus exclusively on disabilities and impairments, Autistic Symphony celebrates the challenges and rewards...

This volume explores how disability is seen, written about, read and understood through literature and translation. Foregrounding the asymmetrical world of power relations, it delves into the act of translation to exhibit how disability is constructed...

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 what is culturally understood to be an "able" body? How does this experience make visible the structures...

This book explores the possibilities and limitations re-theorizing disability using historical materialism in the interdisciplinary contexts of social theory, cultural studies, social and education policy, feminist ethics, and theories of citizenship.

""A Special Study of the Incidence of Retardation"" is a book written by Louis Benjamin Blan in 1911. The book focuses on the incidence of mental retardation in children and provides a detailed analysis of the causes and effects of this condition. Blan's...

Efforts to reduce discrimination and increase diversity on campuses, coupled with shrinking budgets causing administrators to devote more resources toward recruiting and retaining students with disabilities, are fuelling an explosion of research in the...

Many critical analyses of disability address important 'macro' concerns, but are often far removed from an interactional and micro-level focus. Written by leading scholars in the field, and containing a range of theoretical and empirical contributions...

Although the author of 'Survey of Cripples in New York City' is unknown, the book remains an important piece of social history. Published in 1915, this survey was conducted by the New York Association for the Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality and...

This manual provides technical information on the Elwyn institution for the 'feeble-minded and idiotic' in Pennsylvania, including statistics, procedures, and case histories.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is...

Ce livre explore la représentation des nains dans l'art et la culture occidentale, depuis les mythes antiques jusqu'aux histoires modernes pour enfants. Les auteurs examinent les stéréotypes et les préjugés liés aux personnes de petite taille, mettant en...

Explorez l'histoire des sourds-muets et des aveugles et découvrez l'importance de l'instruction et de l'éducation pour ces personnes. Un recueil de biographies de personnes sourdes et aveugles complète cet ouvrage d'Alexandre Rodenbach.This work has been...

Mace Bugen might have been an achondroplastic dwarf—forty-three inches tall with an average-sized head and a torso set on small, twisted legs—but that didn’t mean he was an idiot or a pushover. In truth, he was smarter than most; over...

The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is one of the major policy innovations of the early 21st century in Australia, representing a new way of delivering services to people with a disability and those who care for them. It has the potential to...

This book recounts some experiences of young Australians with catastrophic brain injuries, their families and the medical system which they encountered. Whilst most of the events described occurred two to three decades ago they raise questions relevant...