Search results for “[Subject: disability]”

• Author(s): Lennard J. Davis • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralWhile there are many introductions to disability and disability studies, most presume an advanced academic knowledge of a r...

• Author(s): John • Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd • Publisher Imprint: SAGE Publications Ltd • BISAC: GeneralSince it was first published in 1993, Disabling Barriers, Enabling Environments has established itself as essential reading for anyone...

• Author(s): Chalotte Glintborg • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: DisabilityThis book investigates how being diagnosed with various disabilities impacts on identity. Once diagnosed with a disability, there ...

• Author(s): Rebecca Mallett • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareDisability Studies is an area of study which examines social, political, cultural, and economic fa...

• Author(s): S.P.K. Jena • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Education & PsychologyDespite their average or even above-average intelligence and conventional classroom experience, a large number of children suffer fr...

• Author(s): Dan • Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd • Publisher Imprint: SAGE Publications Ltd • BISAC: Sociology - General

• Author(s): Renu Addlakha • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge Chapman & Hall • BISAC: DisabilitySince the 1970s, the international disability rights movement, the United Nations and national governments across th...

• Author(s): Roland Meinert • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: RoutledgeAlthough the field of disability services and societal understanding of disability issues have advanced in recent decades there remain controversial subje...

• Author(s): Ann Leahy • Publisher: Policy Press • Publisher Imprint: Policy Press • BISAC: GerontologyEstablishing a critical and interdisciplinary dialogue, this text engages with the typically disparate fields of social gerontology and disabil...

• Author(s): Adam Cureton | David Wasserman • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyDisability raises profound and fundamental issues: questions about human embodimen...

• Author(s): Harriet Cooper • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Social WorkThis book examines the relationship between contemporary cultural representations of disabled children on the one hand, and disabilit...

• Author(s): Peter Blanck • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: DisabilityThis handbook provides a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of the current and emerging research and policy on disa...

• Author(s): Mary Willmuth | Lillian Holcomb • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareHere is a powerful stimulus for thought, discussion, and coalition building in the area of wo...

• Author(s): Barbara Altman | Sharon N. Barnartt • Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Emerald Group Publishing • BISAC: Organizational BehaviorDisability is often described in a way that suggests that it is a permanent and r...

• Author(s): Chataika Tsitsi • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Disease & Health IssuesThis comprehensive ground-breaking southern African-centred collection spans t...

• Author(s): Ivan Brown | Nancy E. Hansen • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: History • BISAC: Ancient - RomeThe Routledge History of Disability explores the shifting attitudes towards and representations o...

• Author(s): Putnam Michelle • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareMainstream gerontological scholarship has taken little heed ...

• Author(s): Elizabeth M. Anderson • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralFor all the work on disability in previous years, there had been surprisingly little done on a subject of central importance - the...

• Author(s): Jackie Leach Scully • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: EthicsJackie Leach Scully argues that bioethics cannot avoid the task of considering the moral mea...

• Author(s): Gauthier de Beco • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: InternationalThis book examines what international human rights law has gained from the new elements in the UN Convention on ...

• Author(s): Michael S. Jeffress • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: DisabilityResearch has long substantiated the fact that living with a disability creates significant and complex challenges to identity neg...

• Author(s): Ronald J. Berger | Laura S. Lorenz • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareThis groundbreaking text makes an intervention on behalf of disability studies into the br...

• Author(s): Barbara Altman | Sharon N. Barnartt • Publisher: Jai Press Inc. • Publisher Imprint: Jai Press Inc. • BISAC: HistoryThe first volume presents a collection of exciting papers exploring several new areas of disability research. The con...

• Author(s): David Race • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralThe detailed study of learning disability features rarely in university courses. To a large extent this reflects the low value attributed by our society...

• Author(s): Leighanne Higgins | Katharina C. Husemann | Anica Zeyen • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Marketing - GeneralThis book highlights the pressing issue of marketplace accessibility for over a billion people ...

• Author(s): Ryan Thorneycroft • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Social WorkDrawing upon vivid and harrowing life history narratives of people labelled intellectually disabled, this book examines the ways i...

• Author(s): Christian Laes • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralAlmost fifteen per cent of the world's population today experiences some form of mental or physical disa...

• Author(s): Someshwar Sati • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge Chapman & Hall • BISAC: Modern - 21st CenturyThis volume explores how disability is seen, written about, read and understood through literature and t...

• Author(s): Sabayasachi Bhaumik | Regi Alexander • Publisher: Oxford Univ PR • Publisher Imprint: Oxford Univ PR • BISAC: Psychiatry - GeneralIntellectual Disability (ID) describes a lifelong condition of heterogeneous aetiology, associated with...

• Author(s): David Mitchell • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: DisabilityPeople with disabilities are among the most adversely affected during conflict situations or when natural disasters strike. They exper...

• Author(s): Tom Shakespeare • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Social WorkDisability: The Basics is an engaging and accessible introduction to disability which explores the broad historical, social, environ...

• Author(s): Barbara Fawcett • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: DisabilityFeminist Perspectives on Disability provides a unique introduction to the key debates in relation to both feminism and disability. Th...

• Author(s): Brian Watermeyer • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: RoutledgeIn recent years, disability studies has been driven by a model of disability which focuses on the social and economic oppression of disabled people. Alt...

• Author(s): Ronda C. Talley • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Health Care DeliveryFrom the Back CoverCaring for people with disabilities often becomes an all-encompassing responsibility for one or more family members. ...

• Author(s): John Vorhaus • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareGiving Voice to Profound Disability is devoted to exploring the lives of people with profound and mul...

• Author(s): Narelle Warren • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Applied PsychologyFrom the Back CoverChronic conditions and physical impairments can take a psychological, social and economic toll, and are assumed to dimin...