Disability category: 614 books
by Tobin Anthony Siebers
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
"Disability Theory is just the book we've been waiting for. Clear, cogent, compelling analyses of the tension between the 'social model' of disability and the material details of impairment; of identity politics and unstable identities; of capability rights and human interdependence; of disability...
by Carol Poore
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
"Comprehensively researched, abundantly illustrated and written in accessible and engaging prose . . . With great skill, Poore weaves diverse types of evidence, including historical sources, art, literature, journalism, film, philosophy, and personal narratives into a tapestry which illuminates...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Introduces key ideas and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions in the emerging field of disability media studies
Disability Media Studies articulates the formation of a new field of study, based in the rich traditions of media, cultural, and disability studies. Necessarily interdisciplinary...
Cultural Disability Studies in Education
Interdisciplinary Navigations of the Normative Divide
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Over the last few decades disability studies has emerged not only as a discipline in itself but also as a catalyst for cultural disability studies and Disability Studies in Education. In this book the three areas become united in a new field that recognises education as a discourse between tutors...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies takes a multidisciplinary approach to disability and provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of the main issues in the field around the world today. Adopting an international perspective and consisting entirely of newly commissioned chapters arranged...
Cognitive Disability Aesthetics
Visual Culture, Disability Representations, and the (In)Visibility of Cognitive Difference
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Cognitive Disability Aesthetics explores the invisibility of cognitive disability in theoretical, historical, social, and cultural contexts. Benjamin Fraser’s cutting edge research and analysis signals a second-wave in disability studies that prioritizes cognition. Fraser expands upon previous research...
Intellectual Disability and Being Human
A Care Ethics Model
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Intellectual disability is often overlooked within mainstream disability studies, and theories developed about disability and physical impairment may not always be appropriate when thinking about intellectual (or learning) disability.
This pioneering book, in considering intellectually disabled...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Geographies of disability have become a key research priority for many disability scholars and geographers. This edited collection, incorporating the work of leading international disability researchers, seeks to expand the current geographical frame operating within the realm of disability. Providing...
Psychosocial Aspects of Disability
Insider Perspectives and Strategies for Counselors
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
"What a marvelous and amazing textbook. Drs. Marini, Glover-Graf and Millington have done a remarkable job in the design of this highly unique book, that comprehensively and very thoughtfully addresses the psychosocial aspects of the disability experience. These highly respected scholars have produced...
The Guide to Assisting Students With Disabilities
Equal Access in Health Science and Professional Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Describes how to meet the needs of health science students with disabilities
Students with disabilities studying health sciences face unique challenges within their educational environments that require distinct accommodations. This manual is a vital resource for administrators and faculty...
The Fantasy of Disability
Images of Loss in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
What are the unconscious fantasies circulating in representations of disability? What role do these fantasies play in defining the condition of disability? What can these fantasies teach us about human vulnerability writ large?
The Fantasy of Disability explores how popular culture texts, such...
Disability, Augmentative Communication, and the American Dream
A Qualitative Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Disability, Augmentative Communication, and the American Dream is a collaborative effort to tell the life story of Jon A. Feucht, a man who was born with a form of cerebral palsy that left him reliant on a wheelchair for mobility, with limited use of his arms and an inability to speak without an assistive...
by Jan Grue
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Disability studies has engaged with discourse analysis in key works both from the UK and the USA. While the perspectives and analyses of discourse analysis have proved well suited for exploring disability, however, its methods have not been sufficiently developed in a disability studies context. Conversely,...
by Kim E. Nielsen
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
The first book to cover the entirety of disability history, from pre-1492 to the present
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Disability is not just the story of someone we love or the story of whom we may become; rather it is undoubtedly the story of our nation. Covering the entirety of US history from pre-1492 to the present,...