Disability category: 614 books
Win Your Social Security Disability Case
Advance Your SSD Claim and Receive the Benefits You Deserve
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Win Your Social Security Disability Case provides step-by-step information to successfully obtain and keep receiving Social Security Disability benefits. All the necessary forms and sample letters required to appeal an unfavorable decision will be provided, along with over 30 medical questionnaires...
Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities
Toward an Eco-Crip Theory
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Although scholars in the environmental humanities have been exploring the dichotomy between “wild” and “built” environments for several years, few have focused on the field of disability studies, a discipline that enlists the contingency between environments and bodies as a foundation...
by Brian Watermeyer
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
In recent years, disability studies has been driven by a model of disability which focuses on the social and economic oppression of disabled people. Although an important counterbalance to a pathologising medical model, the social model risks presenting an impoverished and disembodied view of disability,...
The Staff of Oedipus
Transforming Disability in Ancient Greece
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
Ancient Greek images of disability permeate the Western consciousness: Homer, Teiresias, and Oedipus immediately come to mind. But The Staff of Oedipus looks at disability in the ancient world through the lens of disability studies, and reveals that our interpretations of disability in the ancient...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
First published in 1987, this book focuses on childhood disability within the family. It examines the very nature of disability itself, as well as many of the fundamental elements of families. The book was written at a time when the meaning level of disability and its effect on family and society...
Hoop Dreams on Wheels
Disability and the Competitive Wheelchair Athlete
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
Hoop Dreams on Wheels is a life-history study of wheelchair athletes associated with a premier collegiate wheelchair basketball program. The book, which grapples with the intersection of biography and history in society, situates the study in broader context with background on the history and sociology...
The Future of Disability Law in India
A Critical Analysis of the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act 1995
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
According to some estimates, there are around 20 to 60 million people with disability in India. For long this invisible minority went without any kind of protection or even legislation aimed at recognizing their basic rights. It was only in 1995 that the government passed the Persons with Disabilities...
Backlash Against the ADA
Reinterpreting Disability Rights
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
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 with Disabilities Act in 1990 by a nearly unanimous U.S. House and Senate and a Republican President seemed almost fantastic. Within five years...
by Mark C. Weber
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Building on the insights of both disability studies and civil rights scholars, Mark C. Weber frames his examination of disability harassment on the premise that disabled people are members of a minority group that must negotiate an artificial yet often damaging environment of physical and attitudinal...
Sociology Looking at Disability
What Did we Know and When Did we Know it?
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Current research in Sociology of Disability has a tendency to assume that very little written in this area until the last 20 years. However, this is not always the case. In part the lack of awareness of older writing occurs because of the ease of computerized searching for recent references or a sense...
Reconsidering Intellectual Disability
L'Arche, Medical Ethics, and Christian Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Drawing on the controversial case of “Ashley X,” a girl with severe developmental disabilities who received interventionist medical treatment to limit her growth and keep her body forever small—a procedure now known as the “Ashley Treatment”—Reconsidering Intellectual Disability explores...
The Paralympic Games Explained
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
The Paralympic Games is the second largest multi-sport festival on earth and an event which poses profound and challenging questions about the nature of sport, disability and society. The Paralympic Games Explained is the first complete introduction to the Paralympic phenomenon, exploring every key...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2019
This book explores the diverse ways in which disability activism and advocacy are experienced and practised by people with disabilities and their allies.
Contributors to the book explore the very different strategies and campaigns they have used to have their demands for respect, dignity and...
Don't Call Me Inspirational
A Disabled Feminist Talks Back
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
For psychotherapist, painter, feminist, filmmaker, writer, and disability activist Harilyn Rousso, hearing well-intentioned people tell her, "You're so inspirational!" is patronizing, not complimentary.
In her empowering and at times confrontational memoir, Don't Call Me Inspirational,...