Disability: social aspects Books

Book SynopsisThis handbook provides a much-needed holistic overview of disability and sexuality research and scholarship. With authors from a wide range of disciplines and representing a diversity of nationalities, it provides a multi-perspectival view that fully captures the diversity of issues and outlooks.Organised into six parts, the contributors explore long-standing issues such as the psychological, interpersonal, social, political and cultural barriers to sexual access that disabled people face and their struggle for sexual rights and participation. The volume also engages issues that have been on the periphery of the discourse, such as sexual accommodations and support aimed at facilitating disabled people''s sexual well-being; the socio-sexual tensions confronting disabled people with intersecting stigmatised identities such as LGBTBI or asexual; and the sexual concerns of disabled people in the Global South. It interrogates disability and sexuality from diverse perspectives, froTrade Review"The study of disability and sexuality is thriving and this handbook is one of the most important volumes to date for scholars, students, and activists interested in the field. Focusing on a diverse, interdisciplinary range of issues from impressively global perspectives, the volume is indispensable for thinking about sexuality and disability in theory, representation, and policy." Robert McRuer is Professor of English at George Washington University in Washington, DC, USA."It is a pleasure for me to offer my full endorsement of The Routledge Handbook of Disability and Sexuality by Russell Shuttleworth and Linda Mona. Although issues relating to sexuality and disability have been in the literature for many years, this collection provides an astonishing array of current cultural, disability affirmative perspectives on the topic. This is must reading for anyone interested in understanding the linkage between these concepts." Stanley Ducharme, Ph.D., Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine and Urology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA. USA.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Contextualising Disability and Sexuality Studies. PART 1 Theoretical frames and intersections. 1 Theorising disabled people’s sexual, intimate and erotic lives/current theories for disability and sexuality. 2 Theoretical developments: Queer theory meets crip theory. 3 Thinking differently about the sexual capacities of bodies with Deleuze and the case of infertility amongst men with Down syndrome. 4 A critical rethinking of sexuality and dementia: A prolegomenon to future work in critical dementia studies and critical disability studies. 5 Combating old ideas and building identity: Sexual identity development in people with disabilities. 6 Sexuality and disability in Brazil: Contributions to the promotion of agency and social justice. PART 2: Subjugated histories and negotiating traditional discourses. 7 Sexuality, disability, and madness in California’s eugenics era. 8 Disability rights through reproductive justice: Eugenic legacies in the abortion wars. 9 Sexuality and the disregard of lived reality: The sexual abuse of children and young people with disabilities. 10 Sexuality and physical disability: Perspectives and practice within Orthodox Judaism. PART 3: Politics, policies and legal frames across the world. 11 Sexual citizenship, Disability policy and facilitated sex in Sweden. 12 Access to sexual and reproductive health for people with disabilities in Zimbabwe. 13 "Tick the straight box": Lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender (LGBT+) people with intellectual disabilities in the UK. 14 Sexuality and sexual rights of young adults with intellectual disability in Central Java, Indonesia. 15 Advance consent and network consent. PART 4: Representation, performance and media. 16 Missing in action: Desire, dwarfism and getting it on/off/up…A critique and extension of disability aesthetics. 17 Sex, love and disability on screen. 18 Dynamics of disability and sexuality: Some African literary representations. 19 Flaunting towards otherwise: Queercrip porn, access intimacy and leaving evidence. 20 Desexualising disabled people in the news media. PART 5 Sexual narratives and (inter)personal perspectives. 21 Understanding the lived experience of transgender youth with disabilities. 22 Flowing desires underneath the chastity belt: Sexual re-exploration journeys of women with changed bodies. 23 (Il)licit sex among PWDs in Trinidad & Tobago: Sexual negotiation or compromise. 24 Reimaging sexuality in the disability discourse in South Asia. 25 Disability and asexuality? 26 Through a personal lens: A participatory action research project challenging myths of physical disability and sexuality in South Africa. 27 "That’s my story": Transforming sexuality education by, for and with people with intellectual disabilities. PART 6: Accommodation, support and sexual well being. 28 Sexual wellness for older persons with a disability: A life-course perspective. 29 Toward sexual autonomy and well-being for persons with upper limb mobility limitations: The role of masturbation and sex toys. 30 Paid sexual services available for people with disability: Exploring the range of modalities offered throughout the world. 31 Promoting sexual well-being for women with disabilities through family-centred integrated behavioural healthcare. 32 Occupational therapy’s engagement with empowering disability and sexuality. 33 Disability and social work: Partnerships to promote sexual well-being. 34 Intersections of disability, sexuality, and spirituality within psychological treatment of people with disabilities.

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Book SynopsisSocial Research and Disability argues that the contemporary rules of sociological methods outlined in numerous research methods texts make a number of assumptions concerning the researcher including ambulance, sight, hearing and speech. In short, the disabled researcher is not considered when outlining the requirements of particular methods. Drawing upon these considerations, the volume emphasizes how disabled researchers negotiate the empirical process, in light of disability, whilst retaining the scientific rigour of the method. It also considers the negative consequences arising from disabled researchers' attempts at passing and the benefits that can emerge from a reflexive approach to method. This innovative and original text will, for the first time, bring together research-active academics, who identify as being disabled, to consider experiences of being disabled within a largely ableist academy, as well as strategies employed and issues faced when conducting eTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Navigating the Academy 1. Owning My Room: Building a Safe, Accessible and Productive Space for Student Researchers with Complex Communication Disabilities 2. On the Outside Looking In?: Reflections on Being a Disabled Social and Feminist Geographer 3. A Closer Look at ‘Wheelchair’ Ethnography: Ableism and the Insights Disabled Scholars Generate with - not despite - Their Impairments and Disabilities 4. Dilemmas of Identity Disclosure and Provision of Disability Support Part 2: Conducting Research "In the Field" 5. The Continuing Adventures of a Four-Legged Female Academic 6. 10 Affects of Hidden, Mental Dis/Abilities and the Act of Disclosure 7. Lived Experience Researchers: The Power of Recovery from Mental Health Challenges Part 3: Shifting Methodologies 8. Unsettling Ableism in Research Traditions: Toward Establishing Blind Methodologies 9. Deaf Research Methodologies? Confronting Epistemological Silences and Challenges in Qualitative Research 10. "Repeat After Me": Gestalt, Fluency and Biographical Research Editorial Reflections

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Book SynopsisThis book provides insight into the globally interlinked disability rights community and its political efforts today. By analysing what disability rights activism contributes to a global power apparatus of disability-related knowledge, it demonstrates how disability advocacy influences the way we categorise, classify, distribute, manipulate, and therefore transform knowledge.By unpacking the mutually constitutive relations between (practical) moral knowledge of international disability advocates and (formal) disability rights norms that are codified in international treaties such as the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), the author shows that the disability rights movement is largely critical of statements that attempt to streamline it. At the same time, cross-cultural disability rights advocacy requires images of uniformity to stabilise its global legitimacy among international stakeholders and retain a common meta-code that visibly identifTable of Contents1. Introduction PART I 2. Theory with unstable referents 3. Methodical approach PART II 4. Reflecting languages and symbols 5. Paradigmatic lines and actor relationships 6. Reconciling multiple knowledges 7. Categorising and explaining as knowledge change 8. Advocacy knowledge as political-legal intervention 9. Final discussion

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Book SynopsisThis book explores what happens to people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD) when they reach adulthood. It provides an examination of various terms and definitions in use and a critical exploration of current UK policies.Table of ContentsPreface; Chapter One: The ‘ignored minority’; Introduction; Why terms and definitions are important; UK and International terms; PMLD > PIMD; Research issues; Definitions; PIMD Definition; Prevalence; PIMD overlooked; Bibliography; Chapter Two: Policy Frameworks; Introduction; Representation or overlooked?; Normalisation; Social model and ‘embodiment’ or second wave social model; Post-structural social model and ‘brute facts’ of genetics; Personalisation; Self-advocacy aka Speaking Up; Acknowledging difference in service provision; Beyond social model frameworks; Bibliography; Chapter Three: Disrupting the Illusion; The New Vision: Rights, Independence, Choice and Inclusion; Overview of storyline with reference to PIMD; Construction of target population; Spreading the Word, Advocacy, Personalisation and Employment; Implications for services for services for people with PIMD; Informal Family Carers; Formal Care Workers; Bibliography; Chapter Four: All In The Same Direction; Introduction; Background; Communication Communication Communication; Culture of personalised support; Consistency & Clarity =Trust; Routine = Consistency of approach; When ‘no’ means’no’; Echoed words rather than language; Guidelines, Charts, Feedback sheets; Physical Intellectual and Sensory access; Food and eating; Water and Aloe Vera juice / digestion and elimination; Physiotherapy and deep tissue massage; Blood tests; Music therapy; Behavioural Support Needs: Where does the ‘challenge’ lie?; Containment; Building a team; Training/Development; Goals; Task Breakdown; Conclusion; Resources; Bibliography; Chapter Five: Raising our Sights; Introduction; Settings and services; Personalisation; Why film is important; Raising our Sights; Families; ‘R’espite or ‘r’espite; Day / respite services; Still fighting; Community Specialist Health teams; Training; Bespoke training; Conclusion; Resources; Bibliography; Chapter Six: Raising The Bar: beyond the ‘burden of non productiveness’; Introduction; Abuse; Death by Indifference; Improving Health and Lives; CIPOLD > :LeDR; Advocacy Advocacy Advocacy; Core and Essential Service Standards: Raising The Bar; Conclusion; Resources; Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisDisability sport is a relatively recent phenomenon, yet it is also one that, particularly in the context of social inclusion, is attracting increasing political and academic interest. The purpose of this important new text  the first of its kind  is to introduce the reader to key concepts in disability and disability sport and to examine the complex relationships between modern sport, disability and other aspects of wider society. Drawing upon original data from interviews, surveys and policy documents, the book examines how disability sport has developed and is currently organised, and explores key themes, issues and concepts including: disability theory and policy the emergence and development of disability sport disability sport development in local authorities mainstreaming disability sport disability, physical education and school sport elite disability sport and the Paralympic Games disTrade Review'Thomas and Smith have delivered a much-needed critical examination of the opportunities and challenges facing the modern Paralympic and disability sport movement. In the run-up to London 2012 this is a book that should be read by all students, academics, administrators and policy-makers with an interest in disability sport.' - Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson "There is a real need for this book. It provides a unique and valuable sociological analysis of disability sport." Karen P DePauw, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Table of Contents1. Disability theory and policy 2. The emergence and development of disability sport 3. Local authorities and disability sport development 4. Mainstreaming disability sport: a case study of four sports 5. Disability, physical education and school sport 6. Elite disability sport: the Paralympic Games 7. Disability sport and the media

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Book SynopsisMichel Foucaultâs The History of Sexuality is one of the most influential philosophical works of the twentieth century and has been instrumental in shaping the study of Gender, Feminist Theory and Queer Theory. But Foucaultâs writing can be a difficult book to grasp as Foucault assumes a familiarity with the intellectually dominant theories of his time which renders many passages obscure for newcomers to his work. The Routledge Guidebook to Foucaultâs The History of Sexuality offers a clear and comprehensive guide to this groundbreaking work, examining: The historical context in which Foucault wrote A critical discussion of the text, which examines the relationship between The History of Sexuality, The Use of Pleasure and The Care of The Self The reception and ongoing influence of The History of Sexuality Offering a close reading of the text, this is essential reading for anyone studying this enormously influential work.Trade ReviewTaylor’s well-written guide to Foucault’s History of Sexuality promises to become a welcome companion for students delving into Foucault’s influential text, as it provides historical context and clarifies points of reference that may require some explanation and background for the new reader of Foucault.Claudia Schippert, University of Central Florida, USAIn this invaluable guide to Foucault’s History of Sexuality Volume 1, Taylor offers a lucid explication of one of the most consistently misread books of our time. Without sacrificing nuance or depth, Taylor frames Foucault’s History of Sexuality within the history of eugenics. This text will be especially illuminating for students who have looked to Foucault for a theory of sexual liberation. The chapters on Foucault’s uptake by feminists and queer theorists are a tour de force! Highly recommended for beginners and experts alike. Lynne Huffer, Emory University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One: The Will to Know Questioning the Repressive HypothesisConfessionThe Social Construction of SexualitiesThe Perverse ImplantationChapter Two: Power Over Life Objective: RegicideMethod: or How to Theorize Power without the KingPower is everywherePower is warPower is relational Power is immanentPower comes from belowPower relations are intentional and non-subjectivePower produces resistanceChapter Three: Women, Children, Couples and ‘Perverts’ Denaturalizing SexDomain: The FamilyWomenChildrenCouples‘Perverts’Periodization: Retelling the History of SexualityChapter Four: Sex, Racism, and Death From Sanguinity to SexualityFoucault’s Genealogy of Modern RacismFrom Spectacles of Death to the Management of MorbidityExecutionsSuicideWarLetting DieDe-sexing sexualityChapter Five: The History of Sexuality and Feminist TheoryFeminist TensionsThe Repressive Hypothesis, Identity Politics, and the Feminist Sex WarsConsciousness Raising, Confession, and ExperienceFeminist Bodies and Pleasures Chapter Six: The History of Sexuality and Queer Theory From Feminism to Queer Theory‘A Queer Voice’Canonizing Foucault ‘The Imperial Prude’Chapter Seven: A Genealogy of the Desiring Subject Revising the ProjectSexual Austerity and the Monogamous IdealUsing SexSexual Anxiety‘The antimony of the boy’A Male EthicsEthics versus CodesScalePositions and PartnersSexual BinariesSex and HealthSex without PsychologyThe Use of The Use of PleasureBibliography

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Book SynopsisIn this ground-breaking new work, Dan Goodley makes the case for a novel, distinct, intellectual, and political project dis/ability studies an orientation that might encourage us to think again about the phenomena of disability and ability. Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary areas, including sociology, psychology, education, policy and cultural studies, this much needed text takes the most topical and important issues in critical disability theory, and pushes them into new theoretical territory. Goodley argues that we are entering a time of dis/ability studies, when both categories of disability and ability require expanding upon as a response to the global politics of neoliberal capitalism. Divided into two parts, the first section traces the dual processes of ableism and disablism, suggesting that one cannot exist without the other, and makes the case for a research-driven and intersectional analysis of dis/ability. The second section applies this new analytical framTrade Review“Dis/Ability Studies: Theorizing Disableism and Ableism, is a compelling text in which readers are invited to engage with, build upon, and weave together important theoretical contributions made by activist scholars in disableism, ableism, queer theory, crip theory, and poststructural and postconventional disability studies research. Goodley himself does much of the weaving for us as he illustrates, rather masterfully I think, how multiple theoretical perspectives might be brought together and expanded in order to open new spaces for theorizing how we might disrupt the intractable nature of ableism and disableism and their entrenched capacity to shape modern neoliberal responses to disability.” - Cynthia Bruce, PhD(C) Part-Time Faculty, Education, Acadia University, Canadian Journal of Disability Studies'Dis/Ability Studies brings together a dizzying array of new theoretical concepts, tools and lenses with which to activate a dis/ability imagination. What makes Dis/Ability Studies an exciting read is the incredible volume of theory and empirical research that Goodley reviews, synthesis, dissects and analyses.' - Imogen Tyler, Disability and Society, April 2015'The author's thesis is that disability and ability are both worthy of study and they cannot be separated. The messy bits between this binary is what complicates the current state of disability studies, and is really the heart of the entire book ... Particularly enjoyable is his suggestion that so-called "normals" need therapy to combat the psychopathology of ableism ... Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.' - P.A. Murphy, University of Toledo, in CHOICE, December 2014‘Dis/ability Studies proposes a new dialectic in which the twins disability and ability – separated at birth – are re-united in a confrontation whereby the alienated siblings come to terms with their distinctive experiences; one, comfortable in the lap of privilege; the other, mired, deep down amongst the wretched of the earth. Professor Goodley breaks new ground and re-sets the template for the disability debate.’ – Professor Bill Hughes, Glasgow School for Business and Society, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK. ‘"Dis/ability studies" is a remarkable synthesis of the most distinctive strands of Goodley’s thought, and yet, expands current scholarly thinking. Goodley offers a clear signal for a change of direction, if not a revolution, in disability thought.’– Dr Karen Soldatic, School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Australia.‘With radical vitality, Dan Goodley’s latest invites us to inhabit the slash between able/disabled in order to re-encounter the constitution of the human. Exposing the "normal’s" confused engagement with dis/ability, readers are offered a transformative praxis opposing ideals of ableism while respecting our desire to thrive in disability-as-life. Goodley addresses the often unquestioned and deadly normative demands of our "austere" times as a way to work toward what he takes as the heart of being human, namely, alliance, connections and interdependence. In the midst of disability studies, queer and post-colonial theory, Goodley invites us to imagine politics as the actualization of a committed interrelatedness affirming life that has been made marginal by stark neo-liberal practices that feed markets trading in degradation. Critical of rigid models, this book is an essential read and a rallying cry for anyone who desires to put the question of embodiment into the heart of what it means to be human.’ – Professor Tanya Titchkosky, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada.‘With both the rigor and wit that marks all of his work, Dan Goodley maps the landscape of contemporary critical disability studies in his comprehensive new book. Dis/ability Studies: Theorising Disablism and Ableism, moreover, makes clear to readers the urgent and innovative directions in which disability studies needs to move. This book is not only an invaluable resource surveying the models of disability that structure (and can transform) our culture, it is—in its attention to a global austerity politics and the workings of what Goodley terms neoliberal-ableism—an important part of the global turn that the interdisciplinary field is taking. Through stories of oppression and resistance in multiple locations, Dis/ability Studies ultimately welcomes critically disabled "becomings" that can dismantle the structures of ableism that Goodley theorises.’ – Professor Robert McRuer, Department of English, George Washington University, USA.Table of ContentsPreface Part 1: Finding Dis/ability Studies 1. Disablism 2. Ableism 3. Intersectionality 4. Dis/ability Studies 5. Researching Dis/ability Part 2: Exemplifying Dis/ability Studies 6. Precarious Bodies: The Biopolitics of Dis/ability and Debility 7. Becoming Inclusive Education: Cripping Neoliberal-able Schooling 8. The Psychopathology of the Normals: Why People are so Messed up Around Dis/ability 9. Markets, Cruel Optimism and Civil Society: Producing Dis/ability 10. Critical Dis/ability Studies

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Book SynopsisExamining mothers of newly diagnosed disabled children within the context of new reproductive technologies and the discourse of choice, this book uses anthropology and disability studies to revise the concept of normal and to establish a social environment in which the expression of full lives will prevail.Trade Review"I think the audience for this book would be very wide from interested lay persons to medical anthropologists/sociologists. Also this is an important topic for medical professionals and public health scholars. It does offer a critical perspective as well – which does not dominate the book - but is very important for many scholars. I also think it is highly readable and would be of interest to students – upper level undergraduates to graduate students (for example I would use this book in my Medical anthropology course - 300 level)." Michael J. Oldani, Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, WhitewaterTable of Contents1: Introduction 2: Doing Everything Right: Choice, Control and Mother Blame 3: Diminished Motherhood 4: Mothers, Doctors and Developmental Delays: On Personhood and the Emplotment of Children’s Lives 5: The Child as Giver: Mothers’ Critique of the Commodification of Babies 6: Mothers, Models, and Disability Rights

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Book SynopsisToday the Paralympic Movement is recognised as a global sporting phenomenon attracting thousands of athletes from an ever-increasing number of countries. Athlete First provides a thoroughly researched history and analysis of the Paralympic Movement, including the development and organisation of the International Paralympic Committee. As well as recounting factual achievements and events, the book examines the position of sport and international competition for people with a disability within their changing historical context and in relation to the Olympic Movement and able-bodied sport. The first history of the origins and development of the Paralympic movement Examines disabled sport and international competition within their changing historical context Includes details of key players in the movement on and off the field Written in an accessible style by a recognised historian Athlete First will prove invaluTrade Review“All in all this is an indispensable guide to the labyrinthine origins of disability and Paralympic sport and this book will be an absolutely vital source text for other scholars working in this area.” (Sport in History, 28 June 2012) “The book is the first cohesive history of the Paralympic Movement.” (Idrottsforum.org, June 2009) "This book successfully takes on the task of chronicling the story of the paralympic movement. Along the way, readers are introduced to some of the strong characters who have helped get the paralympians to their current position on the international sports stage." (Doody's, January 2009)Table of ContentsList of Figures and Boxes. Foreword: Sir Philip Craven. Foreword: Prof. Dr Gudrun Doll-Tepper. International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education. Preface. List of Abbreviations. Chapter 1. A Showcase of Ability. Chapter 2. An Air of Hopelessness. Chapter 3. The Era of Development: 1960 to 1980. Chapter 4. Fair, not Equal: 1980 to 1988. Chapter 5. Building Bridges not Walls: 1988 to 1992. Chapter 6. Spirit in Motion: 1992 to 1996. Chapter 7. Repair What Needs Repair? 1996 to 2000. Chapter 8. Sport is About Emotion: 2000 to 2004. Bibliography and Resources. Index.

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Book SynopsisRisk Assessment in People with Learning Disabilities, Second Edition reflects legislative updates made over the past decade while continuing to demystify the process of assessing risk for people with intellectual impairment (previously called 'learning disabilities').Table of ContentsPreface: Introduction to Second Edition vii Chapter 1 Assessing Risks in the Lives of People with Intellectual Impairment 1 Chapter 2 The Problem of Predicting Risk 13 Chapter 3 Assessing Risks and Establishing Care Plans 27 Chapter 4 Everyday Risks 47 Chapter 5 Parents with Intellectual Impairment 69 Chapter 6 Self-harm, Mental Illness and Risk 89 Chapter 7 Other Mental Disorders and Associated Risks 103 Chapter 8 Violence and Offending in People with Intellectual Impairment 123 Chapter 9 Sex Offenders with Intellectual Impairment 141 Chapter 10 Assessment of Risk with Those You Care For: the Way Forward 155 References and Suggested Further Reading 167 Index 171

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Book SynopsisThis book is based on the premise that counseling and psychotherapy services are useful and effective interventions with the mental retardation and borderline populations. The chapters focus on issues relevant to intervention (assessment, characteristics of emotional problems), specific techniques and adaptations of techniques for use with this population. The outstanding contributors are all scholars and practitioners with experience in working with individuals with mental retardation and borderline intelligence. The volume provides a comprehensive overview of issues and applications and will serve as the standard counseling and therapy reference work in this area.Table of ContentsIssues in Counseling and Psychotherapy (H. Prout & D.Strohmer). An Overview of Psychopathology (J. Sevin & J. Matson). Assessment in Counseling and Psychotherapy (H. Prout & D.Strohmer). Individual Counseling Approaches (H. Prout & R. Cale). Individual Behavioral Counseling Approaches (D. Strohmer & P.Spengler). Group Counseling and Psychotherapy (D. Brown). Family Interventions (H. Cobb & W. Gunn). Vocational Counseling with Persons with Mental Retardation (E.Levinson, et al.). Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the care of mentally ill patients--psychiatric and geriatric--in community settings. It addresses the implications for hospitals, community services and staff, and patients. It examines the central issues of patient outcomes, service provision and effectiveness, economics of provision and impact on staff and community.Table of ContentsPartial table of contents: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL. Evolution of Policy (J. Carrier I. Kendall). Lessons from the American Experience in Providing Community-BasedServices (L. Bachrach). PERSPECTIVES ON COMMUNITY CARE: PATIENTS, STAFF AND PUBLIC. Residential Care for the Mentally Ill in the Community (N.Trieman). Costing Care in Hospital and in the Community (J. Beecham, etal.). The Effect of Reprovision on the Acute Services (R. Sammut J.Leff). Training Level and Training Needs of Staff (V. Senn, et al.). Attitudes of the Media and the Public (G. Wolff). THE PITFALLS AND HOW TO AVOID THEM. The Downside of Reprovision (J. Leff). Patients Who are too Difficult to Manage in the Community (N.Trieman). Providing a Comprehensive Community Psychiatric Service (J. Leff N.Trieman). The Future of Community Care. (J. Leff). Index.

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Book SynopsisExplores the long-neglected history of those who have sustained lasting injuries or chronic illnesses while serving in uniform. The contributors to this volume cover an impressive range of countries in Europe and North America as well as a wide sweep of chronology from the Ancient World to the present.Trade Review...more than introducing readers to a little-explored corner of the past, Disabled Veterans in History forces readers to think differently about war itself." — American Historical Review"By identifying and exploring what makes the disabled veteran 'different', the volume accomplishes historiographically what many twentieth-century policy-makers sought: to bring the war-disabled back into the mainstream of social and economic life." — Social History of Medicine"The wide thematic and chronological range of this collection, and the thorough introductory essay, make it invaluable to anyone with an interest in the history of war and medicine, the history of social policy, or of disability in general." — Medical History"Disabled Veterans in History nicely demonstrates the possibilities for studying how societies treat men wounded in the service of the state. . . . This anthology marks an excellent beginning and the questions raised here and the sources uncovered point to the exciting possibilities for further scholarship." — H-Disability"The quality of the scholarship ranges from good to magnificent, and the material is sufficiently engaging to keep the average student reading." — Journal of World History

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“[A]n important, prescient, and necessary contribution…a kind of litmus test for the efficacy of Foucault’s concepts in the study of disability, concepts that lead to a refusal of the biological essentialism implied in the disability/impairment binary.” - Foucault Studies“Tremain has done an exceptional job at organizing and procuring important, rigorously argued, and entertaining essays…. This book should be a mandatory read for anyone interested in contemporary philosophical debates surrounding the experience of disability.” - Essays in Philosophy

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Book SynopsisDrawing on extensive fieldwork and a variety of original sources, Katharina C. Heyer examines three case studies - Germany, Japan, and the United Nations - to trace the evolution of a disability rights model from its origins in the US through its adaptations in other democracies to its current formulation in international law.

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Book SynopsisCharting the divergent paths of paranoid and reparative affects through illness narratives, academic work, queer life, noise pollution, sonic torture, and other touchy subjects, William Cheng exposes a host of stubborn norms in our daily orientations toward scholarship, self, and sound. Cheng contends that reparative attitudes toward music and musicology can serve as barometers of better worlds.Trade Review“Just Vibrations is without question a groundbreaking book, bothaccessible to a wide readership (including undergraduate students) andtheoretically nuanced. Cheng elegantly balances clarity of explanationwith a depth and breadth of scholarship that encourage the reader todive more deeply into the theoretical underpinnings of his readings andinterpretative approaches. All this is accomplished through a writing stylethat is eminently readable, borderline poetic at times.” - Andrew Dell’Antonio, the University of Texas at Austin

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Book SynopsisThrough an analysis of experimental theater, dance theater, performance art, and gallery-based installation art across eight countries, Analola Santana explores the theoretical issues shaped by the encounters and negotiations between different bodies in the current Latin American landscape.Trade ReviewSantana cleverly locates her study in defining and re-defining abject bodies within the heavy weight of colonization that Latin America has suffered from the time of the conquest to today . . . [She] finds how these ‘freak' bodies have encountered, resisted, and hoped for a better present and future."" - Paola Hernández, University of Wisconsin""An important contribution to the scholarly debates around colonialism, coloniality, and neoliberalism through the prism of aesthetics, performance, embodiment, abjection, race, gender, sexuality, and ableisms . . . a theoretically sophisticated and eminently readable analysis of how the ‘freak' comes to embody a broad range of deviant and non-normative positions: the queer, the colonial, the abject, the criminal, the neoliberal."" - Diana Taylor, New York University

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Book SynopsisHow the UN's right to inclusive education has resulted in school segregation for disabled students

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Book SynopsisWhile the loss of sight may be understood as a disability, blind people in the Tokugawa period (1600-1868) could thrive because of disability. The blind of the era were prominent across a wide range of professions. Blind in Early Modern Japan illustrates the breadth and depth of those occupations.Table of Contents List of Illustrations List of Tables Map of Japan in the Tokugawa (Edo) Period (1600–1868) Map of Japan: Modern Regions and Prefectures Abbreviated List of Historical Periods A Note on Japanese Terminology and Names AcknowledgmentsPreface: A Personal NoteIntroductionChapter 1 Japanese Ophthalmology: Medical Studies of Eye ConditionsChapter 2 Eye Medicines: The Popular Culture of CureChapter 3 The Blind Guild: Status and PowerChapter 4 Non-Membership and the Challenge of AuthorityChapter 5 Texts and Performances: The Significance of One Blind Musician’s CareerChapter 6 Healing by Touch: Blind Acupuncturists and MasseursEpilogue Onward to the Meiji PeriodBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisBrings together scholars, musicians, and family members of people with disabilities to collectively recount years of personal experiences, research, and perspectives on the societal and community impact of inclusive musical improvisation.Trade ReviewImprovising Across Abilities is perhaps the only manuscript of its kind: one that explores the applications of one adaptive music technology, AUMI, in extraordinary depth through multivalent perspectives and scenarios via the words and metaphors of an extraordinarily varied collective of writers, students, teachers, social justice workers, technologists, community activists, group home directors, and creatives. While most scholarly essay collections feature chapters by academics from a narrow range of fields (if not a single one), this volume’s editorial team has consciously drawn writing from members of the public community who might not ordinarily contribute to such a collection, as well as from artists, scientists, and professors who write as part of their profession. The variation in writers and voices not only adds to the value of the book, but reinforces its argument that everyone, no matter what shape, size, or ability, should have a voice." - Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Brooklyn College"The awe-inspiring creator and thinker Pauline Oliveros is recognized for her pioneering electronic compositions, the astonishing diversity of her musical creations, her multifaceted poetic and expository writing, and her dedicated teaching of Deep Listening over many years. Some of her best-known work, the Sonic Meditations and Deep Listening Pieces, offers brief verbal instructions to allow groups to create musical experiences together, regardless of the musical training or experience of the people involved. An extension of this inclusiveness came in her later years with the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument (AUMI), now a freely downloadable app that allows users, including people with limited physical mobility, to participate in music making in new and provocative ways. This well-conceived book makes available a stunning wealth of information about AUMI by writers from many different backgrounds." - Fred Maus, University of VirginiaTable of Contents Introduction Section I: Dreaming of AUMI Chapter 1 Going Deep: AUMI Since Before the Beginning Leaf Miller Illustrations by Ty Dykema Chapter 2 From Punk Philosophy to Musical Accessibility Zane Van Dusen Chapter 3 My Transformation into a Masterpiece Musical Instrument and Musician Clara Tomaz Chapter 4 The Gift of Expression: Playing AUMI with My Son Julie Brocklehurst Chapter 5 AUMI as a Model for Social Justice George Lipsitz Chapter 6 The Dream of AUMI IONE Section II: Software for All People: Improvising AUMI’s Development Chapter 7 AUMI in the Context of Adaptive Music Alex Lubet Chapter 8 AUMI Among the ADMIs: The Adaptive Digital Context Grace Shih-en Leu Chapter 9 AUMI Development and Developers: The DLI Years (2007-2012) Sherrie Tucker Chapter 10 AUMI Technology Development at McGill (2012-2019) John Sullivan, Ivan Franco, Ian Hattwick, Thomas Ciufo, Eric Lewis Chapter 11 How Adaptive, How Useful? Technological Design Solutions in AUMI for iOS Henry Lowengard Chapter 12 Pauline’s World of Virtuosos: Expanded Instruments, Deep Listening, and Stretched Boundaries Jonas Braasch Section III, Part 1:AUMI Communities Chapter 13 Exploring AUMI’s Potential in the Thunder Bay Community An Interview between Nicola Oddy and Lise Vaugeois Chapter 14 Building and Sustaining Ethical Communities Together An Interview with Rebecca Caines by Ellen Waterman Chapter 15 There’s No Place Like AUMI: Building a Community Partnership in Lawrence, Kansas Jim Barnes, Kip Haaheim, Ray Mizumura-Pence, Sherrie Tucker, and Ranita Wilks Chapter 16 Love, Actually: Using AUMI to Transgress Ableist Directing Habits Nicole Hodges Persley Chapter 17 Wooden Snapdragon Julie Unruh Chapter 18 Improvising Inclusive Communities: Shared Reflections on the Jesse Stewart Residency in Lawrence, Kansas Abbey Dvorak, Kip Haaheim, Ray Mizumura-Pence, and Sherrie Tucker Chapter 19 Sending and Receiving: AUMI Bodies and Dance Improvisation Michelle Heffner Hayes and Sherrie Tucker Chapter 20 Communities of Generosity and Gratitude: AUMI-KU InterArts’ First Decade Ray Mizumura-Pence Section III, Part 2:AUMI Performance Chapter 21 WAAM + AUMI: The We Are All Musicians Project and the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument Jesse Stewart Chapter 22 “To Me, Dance is a Home”: An Interview with Jessie Huggett Jessie Huggett Interviewed by Jack Hui Litster Chapter 23 “I Am Here”: AUMI Sings and Choral Participation Ellen Waterman, Laurel Forshaw, Gillian Siddall, Henry Lowengard, Gale Franklin, Teresa Connors, and Karen Berglander Chapter 24 AUMI, Theremin, and Sonic Witnessing Li Harris Chapter 25 AUMI in Practice: The Mills AIE Matt Robidoux Chapter 26 Knowing as Feeling: Five Meditations on the Planets Kip Haaheim Section IV, Part 1: AUMI Classrooms Jennifer Hurst and Grace Shih-en Leu Chapter 27 Working with AUMI in Classroom Settings in a Center School for Students with Severe Cognitive and Physical Challenges Deborah A. Nelson and Nancy Patterson Chapter 28 AUMI and ‘Improvise Approach’ Backing Tracks Carrie Lennard Chapter 29 AUMI and the Ethics of Technology: A Personal Encounter Eric Lewis Section IV, Part 2: AUMI and Music Therapy: Supporting Independent Musicking Abbey Dvorak and Nicola Oddy Chapter 30 Clinical Applications Using AUMI in Music Therapy Practice Abbey L. Dvorak, James Maxson, and David Knott Chapter 31 Use of AUMI in Clinical Music Therapy for Hospitalized Patients with Complex Neurological Disabilities Sergio Hazard Chapter 32 AUMI and Musical Empowerment in a Pediatric Environment John Mulcahy Section V: Dreaming AUMI Futures Chapter 33 Dream Music Julie Unruh Chapter 34 Dreaming AUMI’S Future IONE References Editorial Team and Chapter Contributors

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Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking collection imagines disabled bodies as ""bodies in commotion"" - bodies that dance across artistic and discursive boundaries, challenging our understanding of both disability and performance.Trade ReviewA 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 demonstrates the enormous profitability of moving beyond disability as metaphor. . . . It's a lesson that many of our cultural institutions desperately need to learn." —Martin F. Norden, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

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Book SynopsisArtists like Blind Arthur Blake, Sonny Terry, Arizona Dranes, and Art Tatum have appeared throughout the history of popular music in America - the list of visually impaired black musicians is long. This book examines the ways that blindness, like blackness, shaped both the music these artists produced and the way the nation received it.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on extensive fieldwork and a variety of original sources, Katharina C. Heyer examines three case studies - Germany, Japan, and the United Nations - to trace the evolution of a disability rights model from its origins in the US through its adaptations in other democracies to its current formulation in international law.

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Book SynopsisCharting the divergent paths of paranoid and reparative affects through illness narratives, academic work, queer life, noise pollution, sonic torture, and other touchy subjects, William Cheng exposes a host of stubborn norms in our daily orientations toward scholarship, self, and sound. Cheng contends that reparative attitudes toward music and musicology can serve as barometers of better worlds.Trade Review“Just Vibrations is without question a groundbreaking book, bothaccessible to a wide readership (including undergraduate students) andtheoretically nuanced. Cheng elegantly balances clarity of explanationwith a depth and breadth of scholarship that encourage the reader todive more deeply into the theoretical underpinnings of his readings andinterpretative approaches. All this is accomplished through a writing stylethat is eminently readable, borderline poetic at times.” - Andrew Dell’Antonio, the University of Texas at Austin

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Book SynopsisThrough an analysis of experimental theater, dance theater, performance art, and gallery-based installation art across eight countries, Analola Santana explores the theoretical issues shaped by the encounters and negotiations between different bodies in the current Latin American landscape.Trade ReviewSantana cleverly locates her study in defining and re-defining abject bodies within the heavy weight of colonization that Latin America has suffered from the time of the conquest to today . . . [She] finds how these ‘freak' bodies have encountered, resisted, and hoped for a better present and future."" - Paola Hernández, University of Wisconsin""An important contribution to the scholarly debates around colonialism, coloniality, and neoliberalism through the prism of aesthetics, performance, embodiment, abjection, race, gender, sexuality, and ableisms . . . a theoretically sophisticated and eminently readable analysis of how the ‘freak' comes to embody a broad range of deviant and non-normative positions: the queer, the colonial, the abject, the criminal, the neoliberal."" - Diana Taylor, New York University

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Book SynopsisExamines how gender and femininity are performed and experienced in everyday life by women who do not rely on sight as their dominant mode of perception, identifying the multiple senses involved in the formation of gender identity within social interactions.Trade ReviewRefutes the simplistic division of sight and blindness as separate worlds of meanings … the firsthand narratives of blind women provide a mirror where sighted assumptions are revealed and made clear. The book offers alternative conceptualizations of gender, visual culture, the gaze, and the sensorium, as well as new perspectives on central concepts within qualitative research, such as the researcher's gaze and research observation." - Elaine Gerber, Montclair State University"I like this book, which investigates sight as well as blindness … a significant contribution to anthropology, disability studies, and women and gender studies, and likely to be required reading in courses in those fields. It is also just a great book to read—by anyone." - Rod Michalko, University of Toronto

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Book SynopsisThe blind of Tokugawa period Japan were prominent across a wide range of professions, and through a strong guild structure were able to exert contractual monopolies over certain trades. Blind in Early Modern Japan illustrates the breadth and depth of those occupations, and the power and respect that accrued to the guild members.Table of Contents Table of Contents List of Illustrations List of Tables Map of Japan in the Tokugawa (Edo) Period (1600–1868) Map of Japan: Modern Regions and Prefectures Abbreviated List of Historical Periods A Note on Japanese Terminology and Names Acknowledgments Preface: A Personal Note Introduction Chapter 1 Japanese Ophthalmology: Medical Studies of Eye Conditions Chapter 2 Eye Medicines: The Popular Culture of Cure Chapter 3 The Blind Guild: Status and Power Chapter 4 Non-Membership and the Challenge of Authority Chapter 5 Texts and Performances: The Significance of One Blind Musician’s Career Chapter 6 Healing by Touch: Blind Acupuncturists and Masseurs Epilogue Onward to the Meiji Period Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBrings together scholars, musicians, and family members of people with disabilities to collectively recount years of personal experiences, research, and perspectives on the societal and community impact of inclusive musical improvisation.Trade ReviewImprovising Across Abilities is perhaps the only manuscript of its kind: one that explores the applications of one adaptive music technology, AUMI, in extraordinary depth through multivalent perspectives and scenarios via the words and metaphors of an extraordinarily varied collective of writers, students, teachers, social justice workers, technologists, community activists, group home directors, and creatives. While most scholarly essay collections feature chapters by academics from a narrow range of fields (if not a single one), this volume’s editorial team has consciously drawn writing from members of the public community who might not ordinarily contribute to such a collection, as well as from artists, scientists, and professors who write as part of their profession. The variation in writers and voices not only adds to the value of the book, but reinforces its argument that everyone, no matter what shape, size, or ability, should have a voice." - Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Brooklyn College"The awe-inspiring creator and thinker Pauline Oliveros is recognized for her pioneering electronic compositions, the astonishing diversity of her musical creations, her multifaceted poetic and expository writing, and her dedicated teaching of Deep Listening over many years. Some of her best-known work, the Sonic Meditations and Deep Listening Pieces, offers brief verbal instructions to allow groups to create musical experiences together, regardless of the musical training or experience of the people involved. An extension of this inclusiveness came in her later years with the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument (AUMI), now a freely downloadable app that allows users, including people with limited physical mobility, to participate in music making in new and provocative ways. This well-conceived book makes available a stunning wealth of information about AUMI by writers from many different backgrounds." - Fred Maus, University of VirginiaTable of Contents Introduction Section I: Dreaming of AUMI Chapter 1 Going Deep: AUMI Since Before the Beginning Leaf Miller Illustrations by Ty Dykema Chapter 2 From Punk Philosophy to Musical Accessibility Zane Van Dusen Chapter 3 My Transformation into a Masterpiece Musical Instrument and Musician Clara Tomaz Chapter 4 The Gift of Expression: Playing AUMI with My Son Julie Brocklehurst Chapter 5 AUMI as a Model for Social Justice George Lipsitz Chapter 6 The Dream of AUMI IONE Section II: Software for All People: Improvising AUMI’s Development Chapter 7 AUMI in the Context of Adaptive Music Alex Lubet Chapter 8 AUMI Among the ADMIs: The Adaptive Digital Context Grace Shih-en Leu Chapter 9 AUMI Development and Developers: The DLI Years (2007-2012) Sherrie Tucker Chapter 10 AUMI Technology Development at McGill (2012-2019) John Sullivan, Ivan Franco, Ian Hattwick, Thomas Ciufo, Eric Lewis Chapter 11 How Adaptive, How Useful? Technological Design Solutions in AUMI for iOS Henry Lowengard Chapter 12 Pauline’s World of Virtuosos: Expanded Instruments, Deep Listening, and Stretched Boundaries Jonas Braasch Section III, Part 1:AUMI Communities Chapter 13 Exploring AUMI’s Potential in the Thunder Bay Community An Interview between Nicola Oddy and Lise Vaugeois Chapter 14 Building and Sustaining Ethical Communities Together An Interview with Rebecca Caines by Ellen Waterman Chapter 15 There’s No Place Like AUMI: Building a Community Partnership in Lawrence, Kansas Jim Barnes, Kip Haaheim, Ray Mizumura-Pence, Sherrie Tucker, and Ranita Wilks Chapter 16 Love, Actually: Using AUMI to Transgress Ableist Directing Habits Nicole Hodges Persley Chapter 17 Wooden Snapdragon Julie Unruh Chapter 18 Improvising Inclusive Communities: Shared Reflections on the Jesse Stewart Residency in Lawrence, Kansas Abbey Dvorak, Kip Haaheim, Ray Mizumura-Pence, and Sherrie Tucker Chapter 19 Sending and Receiving: AUMI Bodies and Dance Improvisation Michelle Heffner Hayes and Sherrie Tucker Chapter 20 Communities of Generosity and Gratitude: AUMI-KU InterArts’ First Decade Ray Mizumura-Pence Section III, Part 2:AUMI Performance Chapter 21 WAAM + AUMI: The We Are All Musicians Project and the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument Jesse Stewart Chapter 22 “To Me, Dance is a Home”: An Interview with Jessie Huggett Jessie Huggett Interviewed by Jack Hui Litster Chapter 23 “I Am Here”: AUMI Sings and Choral Participation Ellen Waterman, Laurel Forshaw, Gillian Siddall, Henry Lowengard, Gale Franklin, Teresa Connors, and Karen Berglander Chapter 24 AUMI, Theremin, and Sonic Witnessing Li Harris Chapter 25 AUMI in Practice: The Mills AIE Matt Robidoux Chapter 26 Knowing as Feeling: Five Meditations on the Planets Kip Haaheim Section IV, Part 1: AUMI Classrooms Jennifer Hurst and Grace Shih-en Leu Chapter 27 Working with AUMI in Classroom Settings in a Center School for Students with Severe Cognitive and Physical Challenges Deborah A. Nelson and Nancy Patterson Chapter 28 AUMI and ‘Improvise Approach’ Backing Tracks Carrie Lennard Chapter 29 AUMI and the Ethics of Technology: A Personal Encounter Eric Lewis Section IV, Part 2: AUMI and Music Therapy: Supporting Independent Musicking Abbey Dvorak and Nicola Oddy Chapter 30 Clinical Applications Using AUMI in Music Therapy Practice Abbey L. Dvorak, James Maxson, and David Knott Chapter 31 Use of AUMI in Clinical Music Therapy for Hospitalized Patients with Complex Neurological Disabilities Sergio Hazard Chapter 32 AUMI and Musical Empowerment in a Pediatric Environment John Mulcahy Section V: Dreaming AUMI Futures Chapter 33 Dream Music Julie Unruh Chapter 34 Dreaming AUMI’S Future IONE References Editorial Team and Chapter Contributors

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Book SynopsisAn exploration of disability in Germany, from the Weimar Republic to the fall of the Berlin Wall. This book examines a range of literary and visual depictions of disability, focusing particular attention on disability and Nazi culture. It reveals how central the notion of disability is to modern German cultural history.Trade ReviewAn important and path-breaking book...immensely interesting, it will appeal not only to students of twentieth-century Germany but to all those interested in the growing field of disability studies. - Robert C. Holub, University of Tennessee ""A major, long-awaited book. The chapter on Nazi images is brilliant - certainly the best that has been written in this arena by any scholar."" - Sander L. Gilman, Emory University

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Book SynopsisAlthough the theme of blindness occurs frequently in literature, literary criticism rarely engages the experiential knowledge of people with visual impairments. The Metanarrative of Blindness counters this trend by bringing to readings of 20th-century works in English a perspective appreciative of impairment and disability.

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Book SynopsisExplores textual representations of disability in the global Renaissance. Elizabeth B. Bearden contends that monstrosity, as a precursor to modern concepts of disability, has much to teach about our tendency to inscribe disability with meaning.Trade ReviewAn excellent, timely, and necessary book that upends the problematic assumption in contemporary disability studies that norming influences didn't exist in premodern societies. Highly interdisciplinary, Monstrous Kinds is an important contribution to both premodern and contemporary disability studies."" - Allison P. Hobgood, Willamette University""An innovative book that will significantly contribute to the growing body of knowledge of Renaissance disability. The variety of texts examined from different geographical areas and languages, and the in-depth analysis of the works and images, are outstanding."" - Encarnación Juárez-Almendros, University of Notre Dame

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Book SynopsisAn engaging, rigorously researched biography of popular 19th century novelist Dinah CraikTrade ReviewA readable and riveting literary and cultural biography that documents Craik's embeddedness in personal, professional, and literary relationships. The book fills a gap in literary studies while also exploring new questions for Victorian disability studies. A meaningful scholarly work and a frankly enthralling read."" - Martha Stoddard Holmes, California State University, San Marcos""An invaluable record of a fascinating life, and a real tour-de-force of both research and organization. Bourrier has synthesized an impressive amount of primary research: manuscript diaries, letters, photographs, even genealogical information. This book will make it possible to give Craik the scholarly attention she has long deserved."" - Talia C. Schaffer, Graduate Center, City University of New York

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Book SynopsisHuman variation has always existed, though it has been conceived of and responded to variably. Beholding Disability in Renaissance England interprets sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature to explore the fraught distinctiveness of human bodyminds and the deliberate ways they were constructed in early modernity as able, and not.

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Book SynopsisThrough the work of Joyce, Beckett, Egerton, and Bowen, Colangelo examines ability, as a category of embodiment and embodied experience, and in the process opens up a new area of inquiry in the growing field of literary disability studies.Table of Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Tempestuously Able Bodied Clear Indistinct Ideas: Narrative, Sensation, and the Diaphanous Body in Joyce's Ulysses Indolesco Ergo Sum: Language, Compulsion, and Beckett's Existential Pains Abling Self and Other: Self-Sufficiency and Gender in George Egerton Unhoused Capacities: Elizabeth Bowen's Colonial Agency Conclusion: COVID-19 and the Plagues of Absence Bibliography

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Book SynopsisExplores the global changes in disability awareness, technology, and policy from the viewpoint of disabled people and their families in a range of local contexts. This book reports on ethnographic research in Brazil, Uganda, Botswana, Somalia, Britain, Israel, China, India, and Japan. It addresses the definition of human rights in local contexts.

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Book SynopsisSacrificial Limbs chronicles the everyday lives and political activism of disabled veterans of Turkey's Kurdish war, one of the most volatile conflicts in the Middle East. Through nuanced ethnographic portraits,Açiksözexamines how veterans' experiences of war and disability are closely linked to class, gender, and ultimately the embrace of ultranationalist right-wing politics. Bringing the reader into military hospitals, commemorations, political demonstrations, and veterans' everyday spaces of care, intimacy, and activism, Sacrificial Limbs provides a vivid analysis of the multiple and sometimes contradictory forces that fashion veterans' bodies, political subjectivities, and communities. It is essential reading for students and scholars interested in anthropology, masculinity, and disability.Trade Review"An engaging, sophisticated contribution to the literature on conflict studies, political violence, medical anthropology, gender studies, and disability studies, Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey is likely to put Turkey on the map of world anthropology as never before." * Conflict and Society *"Offers a timely, rare, and robust look at the making and unmaking of political subjectivities, communities, and the state through a profound analysis of conscripts’ experiences of war and bodily loss." * New Perspectives on Turkey *"Sacrificial Limbs brings a critical approach to the often Eurocentric field of disability studies and contributes to gender studies and masculinity studies in the Middle East. Açıksöz’s perspectives on sacrificial crisis, sovereignty, and authoritarianism will encourage debates about the anthropology of state and conspiracy, disappointment, and crisis and temporality." * American Ethnologist *"An elegantly woven narrative that goes well beyond its manifest ethnographic aim and reads as an astute commentary on the recent past and present of Turkish politics. Combining theoretical rigor with ethnographic finesse, Sacrificial Limbs is an essential read for scholars of gender, disability, militarism, and political violence." * Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association *"The strength of Sacrificial Limbs is twofold: on one hand, it delves deeply into the history of Turkish politics, culture, and social life while at the same time it opens up to a broader sphere of applicability for those interested in gender, sexuality, disability, nationalism, and politics." * Disability Studies Quarterly *"The book is equally a work of political anthropology and medical anthropology and would easily be at home in upper- level undergraduate or graduate courses about either subject. With its careful attention to the sociocultural and political, and the embodiment of disabled masculinity, the book is also an exemplary contribution to the burgeoning field of disability anthropology, and one that clearly demonstrates how work on disability can push medical anthropology to attend to the political in new ways." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Açıksöz effectively reminds us of how otherwise unmarked bodies in theories of sovereignty and biopolitics (and necropolitics) are already always gendered, classed, and ethno-racialized in specific ways." * Anthropology Book Forum *"Brings together meticulous ethnographic insight with rigorous conceptual analysis. . . . Açıksöz has written a beautiful ethnography that provides rare insight into the intimate lives of the protagonists of ultranationalist politics. It is a book that approaches its interlocutors with critical empathy, seeking to understand and lay bare what propels them to become protagonists in deadly violence." * Kurdish Studies *"Sacrificial Limbs weaves an extremely well-written and caring ethnography with important theoretical insights. It is a must-read for those interested in contemporary political dynamics in Turkey and the Middle East. . . . It is no surprise that this elegant ethnography has won several prestigious book awards including the 2021 New Millennium Book Award by the Society of Medical Anthropology and 2020 Fatema Mernisi Award by MESA (Middle Eastern Studies Association). It is highly recommended to political anthropologists." * Political and Legal Anthropology Review *"Moving in its description and insightful in its analysis, Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey provides timely and important contributions to the study of nationalism, sovereignty, violence, masculinity, and embodiment. The author’s discussion of prostheses and their political significance is particularly fascinating." * Ethnos *"This is the kind of book one would point to as a textbook example of ethnographic description or, if you like, of ‘thick description’. But the thickness under consideration does not just mean a mass of statements lumped together by a certain thematic resemblance but rather indicates an eloquently weaved narrative that moves, unsettles, and affects the reader." * Cultural Studies *"Can we still understand the suffering of the people whose politics are offensive to our worldviews if they are simultaneously threatening us or the people sharing our political stance? In Sacrificial Limbs, an ethnography of the disabled veterans and martyrs’ families in Turkey, Salih Can Açıksöz asks and answers this question by inhabiting a ‘grey zone’ and by writing critically, tragically and beautifully from within it." * Social Anthropology *Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgments Preface: Entering a Gray Zone Abbreviations Introduction 1 • Being-on-the-Mountains 2 • The Two Sovereignties: Masculinity and the State 3 • Of Gazis and Beggars 4 • Communities of Loss 5 • Prosthetic Revenge 6 • Prosthetic Debts Epilogue: Bodies and Temporalities of Political Violence Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe stories of fatherscaring for non-verbal children and how these experiences alter their understandings of care, masculinity, and living a full life. Vulnerable narratives of fatherhood are few and far between; rarer still is an ethnography that delves into the practical and emotional realities of intensive caregiving. Grounded in the intimate everyday lives of men caring for children with major physical and intellectual disabilities, Worlds of Care undertakes an exploration of how men shape their identities in the context of caregiving. Anthropologist Aaron J. Jackson fuses ethnographic research and creative nonfiction to offer an evocative account of what is required for men to create habitable worlds and find some kind of normal when their circumstances are anything but. Combining stories from his fieldwork in North America with reflections on his own experience caring for his severely disabled son, Jackson argues that care has the potential to transform our understanding of whoTrade Review“Anthropologist Jackson sheds light on the lives of ‘men caring for children with major cognitive and physical disabilities’ in his vulnerable and edifying debut.” * Publishers Weekly *"Vulnerable narratives of fatherhood are few and far between; rarer still is an ethnography that delves into the practical and emotional realities of intensive caregiving. Grounded in the intimate everyday lives of men caring for children with major physical and intellectual disabilities, Worlds of Care undertakes an exploration of how men shape their identities in the context of caregiving." * Allegra Lab *"What makes Worlds of Care a compelling ethnography is its emphasis on relations, embodied interactions, and lived personal histories – making it a notable contribution to ongoing conversations on disability and caregiving. . . . The text’s combination of personal memoir and the phenomenologically oriented ethnography of care brings to fore the relatability of its narratives for not only men but for individuals and parents – beyond genders, sexualities, geographies, and generations, both within and outside academia." * Exertions *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. The Practice of Care 2. The Depths of Time: Past Becomings and Habitable Worlds Interlude Gary’s Arrival Story 3. Between Bodies: The Fleshy Work of Caregiving 4. Conditions of Possibility: Fathering, Masculinity, and Moral (Re)Orientations Interlude Connectivities 5. Belonging and Being-for-Others 6. The Axiom of Equality Epilogue Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThis vivid portrait of contemporary parenting blends memoir and cultural analysis to explore evolving ideas of disability and human difference. An Ordinary Future is a deeply moving work that weaves an account of Margaret Mead's path to disability rights activism with one anthropologist's experience as the parent of a child with Down syndrome. With this book, Thomas W. Pearson confronts the dominant ideas, disturbing contradictions, and dramatic transformations that have shaped our perspectives on disability over the last century. Pearson examines his family's story through the lens of Mead's evolving relationship to disabilitya topic once so stigmatized that she advised Erik Erikson to institutionalize his son, born with Down syndrome in 1944. Over the course of her career, Mead would become an advocate for disability rights and call on anthropology to embrace a wider understanding of humanity that values diverse bodies and minds. Powerful and personal, An Ordinary Future revealTrade Review"[A] moving meditation on difference, disability, and humanity. In 2015, when his newborn daughter, Michaela, was diagnosed with Down syndrome, [Pearson] and his wife were shocked. Soon, though, he asked himself whether that initial response was generated by ideas about normalcy deeply embedded in the culture. . . . Sensitive reflections on human value." * Kirkus Reviews *"In a new book, an anthropologist and father of three, including a daughter with Down syndrome, reflects on the pressures of parenting." * Sapiens *Table of ContentsContents Preface 1. Becoming 2. Features 3. Institutions 4. Potential 5. Belonging 1 6. Vulnerability Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism,giving individuals the tools to safely uncover their true selves while broadening society?snarrow understanding of neurodiversity?A remarkable work that will stand at the forefront of the neurodiversity movement.??Barry M. Prizant, PhD, CCC-SLP, author of Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing AutismFor every visibly Autistic person you meet, there are countless ?masked? Autistic people who pass as neurotypical. Masking is a common coping mechanism in which Autistic people hide their identifiably Autistic traits in order to fit in with societal norms, adopting a superficial personality at the expense of their mental health. This can include suppressing harmless stims, papering over communication challenges by presenting as unassuming and mild-mannered, and forcing themselves into situations that cause severe anxiety, all so they aren?t seen as needy or ?odd.?In Unmasking Autism, Dr. Devon Price shares his personal experience with masking and blends history, social science research, prescriptions, and personal profiles to tell a story of neurodivergence that has thus far been dominated by those on the outside looking in. For Dr. Price and many others, Autism is a deep source of uniqueness and beauty. Unfortunately, living in a neurotypical world means it can also be a source of incredible alienation and pain. Most masked Autistic individuals struggle for decades before discovering who they truly are. They are also more likely to be marginalized in terms of race, gender, sexual orientation, class, and other factors, which contributes to their suffering and invisibility. Dr. Price lays the groundwork for unmasking and offers exercises that encourage self-expression, including:?Celebrating special interests?Cultivating Autistic relationships?Reframing Autistic stereotypes?And rediscovering your valuesIt?s time to honor the needs, diversity, and unique strengths of Autistic people so that they no longer have to mask?and it?s time for greater public acceptance and accommodation of difference.In embracing neurodiversity, we can all reap the rewards of nonconformity and learn to live authentically, Autistic and neurotypical people alike.

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Book SynopsisA parent’s guide to empowering children to embrace their visible and invisible differences    Meg Zucker was born with one finger on each hand, shortened forearms, and one toe on each misshapen foot, caused by a genetic condition called ectrodactyly. She would eventually pass this condition on to her two sons, and, along with her husband, raise them and their adopted daughter, who has her own invisible differences. Born of the family’s hard-won experiences, this book offers invaluable advice on raising confident, empathetic, and resilient children who succeed, not despite but because of their differences.    Born Extraordinary helps parents of children with differences and disabilities to relinquish their instinctive anxieties, embrace their new normal, and ultimately find joy in watching their children thrive. Often the subjects of unwanted attention—ranging from pitying stares to bullying—Zuck

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Book SynopsisThis Monograph presents a longitudinal investigation of child development and family well-being during the first decade of life for children with Down syndrome, motor impairment, or developmental delay of uncertain etiology. The findings suggest that changes in selected policies and practices can improve outcomes for children with disabilities and their parentsTable of ContentsAbstract. Part I: Introduction. Part II: The Development of Children with Disabilities and the Adaptation of their Parents: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Evidence. Part III: The Early Intervention Collaborative Study: Study Design and Methodology. Part IV: Results: Predictors of Functioning and Change in Children's Development and Parent Well-being. Part V: Discussion. Part VI: Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice References. Acknowledgments. Commentary. Authors and Contributors. Statement of Editorial Policy

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