Social Science : Handicapped

"Thomas Couser's Signifying Bodies comes at a crucial moment when debates about physician assisted suicide, genetic engineering, and neo-natal screening are ......

" I Can't Hear The Walls" This book attempts to bring to light the beauty in the diversity of all human beings as we struggle to survive, cope and realize...

Ethical issues and the intellectually disabled Author: Carlson, Licia Publisher: Indiana University Press Illustration: N Language: ENG Title: The Faces of ......

Things No Longer There is a lovingly crafted collection of personal stories about the author's struggle toward enlightenment while losing her eyesight. It is......

This book explores the relationship between space and disability explaining how space, place and mobility shape the experiences of disabled people. Author: ......

"Comprehensively researched, abundantly illustrated and written in accessible and engaging prose . . . With great skill, Poore weaves diverse types of evide......

"Professor Davidson---an accomplished literary critic---offers a focused and balanced analysis of poetry, film, and the arts honed with his excellent knowled......

For civil rights lawyers who toiled through the 1980s in the increasingly barren fields of race and sex discrimination law, the approval of the Americans wit......

Highly recommended . . . Holmes moves seamlessly from novelists like Charles Dickens to sociologists like Henry Mayhew to autobiographers like John Kitto. -......

Foucault and the Government of Disability is the first book-length investigation of the relevance and importance of the ideas of Michel Foucault to the field......

A testament to the synergy of two evolving fields. From the study of staged performances to examinations of the performing body in everyday life, this book d......

Wrestling with the Goddess details the candid, personal journey of one man's struggle with a debilitating and chronic illness, the insurmountable challenges ......

Join this mother and educator as she searches to find a more effective way to teach her child to read. While embarking on a great adventure of learning she f......

This book is a sequel to The Color Red, a mother's account of her head-long plunge into the world of autism. Believing strongly in the need for research, fu......

This wide-ranging book shows why Paul Longmore is one of the most respected figures in disability studies today. Understanding disability as a major variety ......

Melvin Juette has said that becoming paralyzed in a gang-related shooting was "both the worst and best thing that happened" to him. The incident, he believes......

The history of civil rights for people with intellectual disabilities in 20th century America Author: Carey, Allison Publisher: Temple University Press Illu......

This innovative book discusses the meaning of 'inclusion' through the exploration of the interactions between disabled and non-disabled people at a community......

"A revealing tale of loneliness and camaraderie, dissonance and intimacy with hospital staff, and pain and triumph as one man struggles to reclaim body and s......

Douglas Biklen closely examines the experiences of six families in which children with disabilities are full participants in family life in order to understa......