Disability: social aspects Books

Book SynopsisTrade Review"This original work adds an important new voice to conversations about slavery, disability, and medical history. Exceptional analysis of an understudied topic" --Library Journal (starred review)"Addressing an often-overlooked aspect of the experiences of enslaved people, Barclay intricately examines the connection between racism, disabilities and slavery, as well as the legacy it left behind, in this important and well-researched volume." --Ms. Magazine"The Mark of Slavery is not simply a study of disability discourse. Rather, the book examines disability as both a discourse about race and slavery and as a lived experience affecting the lives of thousands of enslaved people." --Black Perspectives"While many of the racist and ableist discourses seemed to be contradictory and nonsensical, Barclay skillfully demonstrates how each of the narratives work together to create a larger, long-standing co-constitution of Blackness, disability, and dependency. . . . After reading this book, it is near impossible to consider race in America as anything separate from disability and ableism. . . . Compelling." --Ethnic and Racial Studies"Jenifer Barclay offers us a powerful, deeply researched, and rich study of the meanings of disability in the antebellum South. The sheer breadth of literature that this work speaks to is impressive. . . . The Mark of Slavery is a critical intervention into fields that have ignored or marginalized disability." --American Nineteenth Century History"Barclay's study is a well-researched investigation of nineteenth-century cultural debates on race and the body. Disability scholarship has flourished in recent years, and Barclay's book is a welcome contribution to the field." --Journal of Southern History"Highly recommended." --Choice"Barclay's deft handling of disability through her archival research, the brilliance of her scholarship on the ways that blackness becomes synonymous with disability, her skillful use of Black Critical Disability Studies as a methodological framework, and clear and persuasive prose allows us greater insight into the debilitating effects of slavery as a disabling device for its victims."--Deirdre Cooper Owens, author of Medical Bondage: Race, Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewLoftis's book does an excellent job of bringing together a range of literary examples and thematizing them as representations of autism. In doing so, and combining this with a very detailed analysis of the works in question, this book contributes a great deal to both disability studies and literary criticism. * Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies *In examining the concerns and misconceptions that drive depictions of people with ASD, Loftis sheds light on the representations that can lead to discrimination against those who have related conditions. * Library Journal *It is to be hoped that this engrossing book will encourage discussion and further work about fictional characters portrayed as autistic, even if not labeled as such. It is a book that will be of value to everyone interested in neurodiversity and the dangers of stereotyping. Itshould also appeal to any one who wants a different perspective on a favorite character. It is highly recommended reading. * H-Disability *Very useful for those interested in disability studies, cultural studies, and literature. . . . Recommended. * Choice *An important and necessary early step in bringing the study of autism into the field of literary studies. * Disability Studies Quarterly *A groundbreaking examination of autism. * Disability & Society *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. The Autistic Detective: Sherlock Holmes and his Legacy2. The Autistic Savant: Pygmalion, Saint Joan, and the Neurodiversity Movement3. The Autistic Victim: Of Mice and Men and Flowers for Algernon4. The Autistic Gothic: To Kill a Mockingbird, The Glass Menagerie, and The Sound and the Fury 5. The Autistic Child Narrator: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time6. The Autistic Label: Diagnosing (and Un-Diagnosing) the Girl with the Dragon TattooAfterwordNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisDisabled persons' struggles for rights and recognitionTrade ReviewThis ethnography is quite accessible and would be appropriate for courses in applied, medical, and development anthropology, anthropology of globalization and cultural change, as well as to historians of disability, and gender studies scholars and students. * Anthropology of East Europe Review *Crafted with an interdisciplinary audience in mind, [this] volume will be of interest to historians of disability, Europe, and the Soviet Union, as well as to cultural and medical anthropologists. Written with accessibility in mind, Phillips weaves theoretical concerns into narrative accounts and historical and ethnographic detail. May 2011 * H-Disability *[This] entire study is a much-needed and welcome addition to the postsocialist literature and would fit well in anthropology, as well as interdisciplinary, courses on Russian and Eastern European studies. * somatosphere.net *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Living Disability and Mobilizing Citizenship in Postsocialism1. A Parallel World2. Out of History3. Disability Rights and Disability Wrongs4. Regeneration5. Disability, Gender, and Sexuality in the Era of "Posts"ConclusionAppendix I: Notes on Terminology and MethodsAppendix II: List of Abbreviations NotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisProvides an integration of feminist theory with disability studiesTrade Review"Puts feminist theory and disability studies into conversation with one another, not simply to make for an 'additive' approach, but to transform both fields of inquiry." —Diane Herndl, Iowa State University"Hall's... collection is a fascinating and valuable contribution to our thinking, and comes at a crucial point in the consolidation of feminist bioethics' engagement with disability." —International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics"Feminist Disability Studies is a particularly solid collection due to the wealth of cross-genre essays and contributions housed within its pages, and its contributors draw from women’s studies, literary and cultural studies, ethnic studies, philosophy, and many other disciplines." —Global Comment"A volume of the highest scholarly quality that extends both feminist theory and disability studies." —Nancy Tuana, Pennsylvania State University"Feminist disability Studies... should be required reading in any course that deals with [femiminsm and disability]." —Feminist Collections"Each of the essays in this collection offers a valuable contribution in its own right. Read together, they make a strong case for the value, indeed necessity, of including disability perspectives in future feminist scholarship." —American Literary HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsReimagining Disability and Gender through Feminist Disability Studies: An Introduction / Kim Q. HallPart 1. Toward a Theoretical Framework for Feminist Disability Studies1. Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory / Rosemarie Garland-Thomson2. Critical Divides: Judith Butler's Body Theory and the Question of Disability / Ellen SamuelsPart 2. Refiguring Literature3. Invisible Disability: Georgina Kleege's Sight Unseen / Susannah B. Mintz4. Revisiting the Corpus of the Madwoman: Further Notes toward a Feminist Disability Studies Theory of Mental Illness / Elizabeth J. DonaldsonPart 3. Interrogating Fitness: Nation, Identity, and Citizenship5. The Color of Violence: Reflecting on Gender, Race, and Disability in Wartime / Nirmala Erevelles6. Gwendolyn Brooks, World War II, and the Politics of Rehabilitation / Jennifer C. James7. Revising the Subject: Disability as "Third Dimension" in Clear Light of Day and You Have Come Back / Cindy LaCom8. A Heritage of Ableist Rhetoric in American Feminism from the Eugenics Period / Sharon Lamp and W. Carol CleighPart 4. Sexual Agency and Queer Feminist Futures9. Disability, Sex Radicalism, and Political Agency / Abby Wilkerson10. Debating Feminist Futures: Slippery Slopes, Cultural Anxiety, and the Case of the Deaf Lesbians / Alison KaferPart 5. Inclusions, Exclusions, and Transformations11. Disparate but Disabled: Fat Embodiment and Disability Studies / April Herndon12. Chronic Illness and Educational Equity: The Politics of Visibility / Karen Elizabeth Jung13. Res(Crip)ting Feminist Theater through Disability Theater: Selections from the DisAbility Project / Ann M. Fox and Joan LipkinContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisExamines the rhetorical practices that generate and sustain discrimination against disabled people. Demonstrates how ableist values, knowledge, and ways of seeing pervade Western culture and influence social institutions such as law, sport, and religion.Trade Review“Cherney shows how the powerful but mostly invisible rhetoric of ableism shapes beliefs about disability. Carefully argued case studies—from The Exorcist, to the cochlear implant debate, to the Casey Martin controversy—illustrate how ableism operates through the warrants of ‘deviance is evil,’ ‘normal is natural,’ ‘body is able’ and across epistemic, ideological, and visual dimensions. They form the heart of the book, making it accessible and engaging for use in an undergraduate rhetoric or disability studies course.”—Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson,coeditor of Embodied Rhetorics: Disability in Language and Culture“As illustrated in this rich examination of ableism in Western society, ableism’s tendency to adapt to different time periods and zeitgeists while naturalizing itself through rhetorical repetition means that Cherney’s study heralds a new field of inquiry that takes ableism, geographical specificity, and rhetoric as its nexus.”—Dominique Salas The Quarterly Journal of SpeechTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments1. The Rhetorical Dimensions of Ableism2. Fearing Disability and the Possession Narrative3. Ableism and the Cochlear Implant Debate4. Sport as Ableist Institution5. A Rhetorical Model of Disability Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOne of the world’s foremost documentary photographers offers an unflinching look at the inhuman conditions suffered by the mentally ill and disabled in many countries.

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking work that explores human size as a distinctive cultural marker in Western thoughtTrade Review“A compelling and innovative account of why size matters. . . Brings much-needed height and breadth to a neglected field.”—Louisa Yates, THES"A pleasure to read. Vallone constantly pushes her inquiries beyond period- or genre-boundaries to ask broad questions that concern us all, as human beings as well as professional specialists. Big & Small should rank alongside the best, most far-reaching studies of childhood and human culture available today."—Professor Rachel Falconer, University of Lausanne"Size matters. Whether our bodies are classed as "ordinary" or "extraordinary", such evaluations have a major impact on how we move through the world. Lynne Vallone's mediations on bodily size are both delightful and insightful. She has a formidable grasp of literary, scientific, and historical approaches to bodies, which she tackles with political as well as personal engagement. I loved reading this book."—Professor Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck, University of London.​"Big and Small is a fascinating and innovative work which deals with a topic we tend to overlook – size and human measure. Through a careful and thorough analysis of literature, art, and science from the eighteenth century to the present Vallone demonstrates that size matters in all aspects of our lives. Convincing and highly significant, her book will change our views of how we determine all aspects and values of bodies."—Jack Zipes, University of Minnesota"Vallone’s skill in moving between divergent bodies of material with such assured interdisciplinary gusto means that this is something of a magnum opus: the type of major scholarly achievement that only the best kind of critical mind is capable of producing after years of searching inquiry into a very broad range of sources drawn from literature, art history, sociology, and gender studies. An outstanding and resourceful work."—Prof. Joseph Bristow, Distinguished Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles

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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 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 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 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 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 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 SynopsisOne of Us views conjoined twinning and other “abnormalities” from the point of view of people living with such anatomies, and considers these issues within the larger historical context of anatomical politics. This deeply thought-provoking and compassionate work exposes the extent of the social frame upon which we construct the “normal.”Trade Review[Dreger] questions whether difference has to be viewed as an impairment and whether impairment is tragic… Disability arises not from the impairment but from the response to it in those around, and so is socially induced… Dreger makes no claim to know all the answers but, by taking their side so eloquently, she invites us to see conjoined twins as ‘no more broken than the rest of us.’ This book is an eloquent and humane plea to see conjoined twins, and others with impairment and disability, as ‘us’ and not ‘them.’ -- Jonathan Cole * Nature *Conjoined twins serve as a metaphor for fundamental truths about what it is to be human. Much of the book’s power, much of its importance, derives from the ways in which the stories it tells resonate with the lives of those who are neither conjoined nor intersexual… Let’s hope the publication of this book leads to…a serious rethinking of all our rights to consent to treatment, to privacy and autonomy, and to life itself. It is because this book has something important to say to ‘normates’ about their own lives, as well as about the lives of conjoined twins, that it stands a real chance of changing how we think about those with atypical anatomies. -- David Wootton * London Review of Books *Part history of medicine, part consciousness-raising freak show, this surprisingly entertaining book examines cultural reactions to conjoined twins and other anatomical anomalies. Dreger argues that Victorians were more appreciative than moderns of people born ‘different,’ viewing them as ‘authorities on a unique and strangely attractive experience.’ Nowadays, pediatric surgeons so prize normalcy that they perform sexual surgery on infants without concern for adult function; they may also withhold information from parents, and even override their consent, when dealing with birth defects… [H]er examples persuasively make the case that the anatomically different feel normal to themselves. * New Yorker *Challenging widely held assumptions is never easy, but that is exactly what Alice Dreger does in this thought provoking and compassionate book… Dreger suggests that raising the political consciousness of all those with unusual anatomies will benefit them and help shift societal attitudes towards acceptance and integration rather than ‘normalisation.’ This discussion will become increasingly important as medical techniques offer more sophisticated means of detecting, eliminating or treating the ‘abnormal.’ * Bulletin of Medical Ethics *Alice Dreger brims with concern about social attitudes towards people who don’t fit the stereotype of what is ‘normal’ and how this is reflected in deformities in general and conjoinedness in particular. If we look beyond her message—that concepts of ‘normality’ are paradoxically both flexible and rigid (to suit a range of prejudices), notoriously artificial and therefore undesirable—we see she has a point. With copious references, she shows that many sets of joined twins were content with their duplex identity, caring deeply about each other and accommodating their often striking psychological and intellectual differences with an intimacy we singletons can hardly imagine. -- Bob Rickard * Fortean Times *In this thoughtful and provocative examination of conjoined twins and other unusual anatomies, Dreger argues that the medically invasive, almost invariably life-threatening separation surgeries are unnecessary and performed, usually, before the people involved are old enough to consent to them. She claims that, historically, most conjoined twins have preferred conjoinment to life as singletons, as Dreger calls those who aren’t conjoined. Rather than changing conjoined twins so that the rest of us can fit them into our construction of normal human anatomy, Dreger believes singletons ought to expand their understanding of anatomical normality to include conjoined twins—and people with cleft lips, intersex genitalia, and other unusual anatomical features. -- John Green * Booklist *Dreger has written a book that is insightful, compassionate, critical, and interesting. She shows how understanding the history of medicine is essential for critically developing current ethical medical protocols and reconstructing what is taken to be normal. -- N. A. McHugh * Choice *Providing historical and contemporary evidence that most adult conjoined twins do not desire to be separated, and that many surgeries are carried out on children too young to object, Domurat Dreger voices distaste for Americans’ failure to tolerate anatomical difference and instead fetishize individualism at all cost… This pithily provocative critique of medical paternalism and society’s blind spot vis-à-vis anatomical standards provides a valuable opportunity to ponder the high-profile surgeries on conjoined twins that most of us know only through the news headlines we habitually fail to question. * Publishers Weekly *Are we singletons simpletons? It may be so. The evidence Alice Dreger marshals in this impressively argued, immensely readable book, suggests that conjoined twins are often perfectly at home in their shared skin, a fact that stretches, if anything, only our assumptions about their double lives. In articulating the rights of the individual in the most intimate of corporations, Dreger makes a persuasive argument for changing society rather than people. Given the recent deaths of the Bijani sisters following separation surgery, Dreger’s contribution to the debate has become even more important. -- Jeffrey Eugenides, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for MiddlesexOne of Us is a fascinating, reasoned, and marvelous exploration of a subject we can’t help being drawn to. Alice Dreger’s book has forced me to rethink my most basic assumptions about the issue of identity and seperateness, for which I am most grateful. -- Abraham Verghese, author of The Tennis Partner and My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of AIDSNot simply a study of conjoinment, Alice Dreger’s book makes a complex and subtle argument for why we should trouble the notion of normal—perhaps the most unchallenged, seemingly commonsensical, foundational idea of our particular place and historical moment. Questioning such an accepted and unexamined concept as normal and the practices that enforce it requires careful rhetorical strategies, subtle arguments, and intricate complexity. Dreger has done this remarkably well, always keeping her writing accessible and lively. More important, she recognizes and acknowledges the cultural logic most of us have absorbed that supports our understanding of conjoinment as a personal tragedy to be undone by medical intervention at any cost and our view of conjoined people as suffering intensely because they are not singletons. One of Us marks an important and original contribution. -- Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Emory University, author of Extraordinary BodiesDreger is a perceptive, warm, thought-provoking and at just the right times, humorous writer. Her goal—to transform the assumptions made about people born with unusual anatomies—is wonderful and essential, especially for a culture that wishes to embrace diversity. Although her focus is on the most extraordinary form of human anatomy, conjoined twins, she also explores intersex, dwarfism, gigantism and cleft lip in her effort to reform the ‘deformed’ narrative. She weaves these voices with her own, creating a powerful historical perspective on the intersection of anatomy, surgery and social identity. After reading this book, all readers will reflect on being ‘defective,’ on the myriad ways that the body is and is not our destiny. -- Jeanne McDermott, author of Babyface: A Story of Heart and BonesFrom the freak show to the talk show, from the operating theater to the courtroom, Dreger traces the history, ethics, and cultural meanings of our attitudes toward conjoined twins and other people with unusual anatomies. This compassionate and well-researched study is a fascinating and important contribution to medical ethics. -- Katharine Park, Harvard University, coauthor of Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1250–1750Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Limits of Individuality 2. Split Decisions 3. What Sacrifice 4. Freeing the Irish Giant 5. The Future of Anatomy Notes Acknowledgments Credits Index Illustrations 1. Eng and Chang Bunker as young men 2. The Bunker twins with two of their sons 3. Types of conjoinment 4. Laloo and his parasitic twin 5. Abigail and Brittany Hensel at play in the family home 6. Chang and Eng Bunker engaged in various pursuits 7. Lin and Win Htut before separation 8. Cover of AORN Journal, January 1982 9. The Two-Headed Boy of Bengal 10. Charles Byrne with two other giants and several people with dwarfism 11. Advertising pamphlet for Millie and Christina McCoy 12. Crouching Figure with Visible Skeleton, by Laura Ferguson

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Book SynopsisIn this absorbing story of the changing life of a community, the authors of Deaf in America reveal historical events and forces that have shaped the ways that Deaf people define themselves today. Inside Deaf Culture relates Deaf people's search for a voice of their own, and their proud self-discovery and self-description as a flourishing culture.Trade ReviewThis well-organized and clearly written book provides a fascinating inside look at the development of Deaf culture… Padden and Humphries’s presentation of these marvelous insights into the history and development of the language and beliefs of the Deaf should be viewed as a welcome step in the quest to inform the hearing world of the rich and fertile culture of the authors’ beloved community. -- Susan Waltzman * New England Journal of Medicine *Inside Deaf Culture is a fascinating account of the rise of group identity among deaf people… Padden and Humphries shed light on the rise of Deaf schools, social clubs and theaters from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries—a history that is unknown to many. -- Jeremy Funk * Christian Century *Carol Padden and Tom Humphries have done it again—and readers everywhere should be grateful. Almost twenty years ago, Padden and Humphries helped transform the nascent and promising field of deaf history with their path-breaking and still relevant book, Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture. In their current work, Padden and Humphries further explore formative ‘cultural moments’ in the deaf community—what they describe as the generative ideas and influences that shape how deaf people identify themselves… This book is a valuable exploration of the deaf community. -- Robert M. Buchanan * American Historical Review *What a bold and courageous book! Carol Padden and Tom Humphries shed light on significant moments in the history of the American Deaf community. They show how struggles for power and dominance have run through their experience for more than a century, from coercive methods of teaching language to efforts of modern science to ‘correct’ and possibly even eliminate deafness—and with it, Deaf culture. -- Glenn Anderson, Professor and Director of Training, University of Arkansas Rehabilitation Research & Training Center for Persons Who Are Deaf or Hard of HearingInside Deaf Culture is a valuable addition to the growing collection of historical material about the Deaf community in the United States of America. It will add much to a better understanding of who we Deaf people are. -- Jack Gannon, author of Deaf HeritageWith writing remarkable for its grace, simplicity, and clarity, Padden and Humphries hold Deaf culture before our eyes for many faceted inspection. This book will be enormously important to ASL teachers, to teachers of Deaf studies, and to Deaf and hearing people who want to understand the Deaf World. -- Harlan Lane, author of A Journey into the Deaf-WorldTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Lens of Culture 1. Silenced Bodies 2. An Entirely Separate School 3. The Problem of Voice 4. A New Class Consciousness 5. Technology of Voice 6. Anxiety of Culture 7. The Promise of Culture 8. Cultures into the Future Notes References Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisSocial Work and Disability offers a contemporary and critical exploration of social work practice with people with physical and sensory impairments, an area that has previously been marginalized within both practice and academic literature.Trade Review �Simcock and Castle offer a critical but balanced account of the role, function and context of social work with disabled people. The book is clear in asserting that social workers have an important and often positive role in the lives of disabled people. Countering some earlier texts which tended to be anti-social work and anti-professional, the authors make plain the barriers to enabling social work and the way the policy environment makes life challenging for disabled people and social workers. Optimistic in tone and practical in orientation, I would recommend it for practice and policy audiences alike.�Alan Roulstone, University of Leeds �This book is a very welcome addition to the limited literature on social work practice with disabled people. Its strength lies in linking a social model discourse with contemporary challenges for social work practice in this area. As such it �bridges the gap� between theoretical concepts and practice realities. It will serve as an excellent resource for discussion and debate with social work students.�David Mercer, Leeds Beckett UniversityTable of Contents Introduction PART I Perspectives: Understanding Disability 1 Lived Experience of Impairment, Disability and Social Work 2 Theories and Models of Disability 3 Disability from a Life Course Perspective 4 The Legal and Policy Perspective PART II Diversity, Inequality and Disability 5 Inequality, Oppression and Disability 6 Disability and Diversity PART III Disability and Social Work Practice 7 Communication and Engagement 8 Working with Disabled Children 9 Working with Disabled Adults 10 Safeguarding, Social Work and Disability 11 Collaborative Practice Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisSocial Work and Disability offers a contemporary and critical exploration of social work practice with people with physical and sensory impairments, an area that has previously been marginalized within both practice and academic literature.Table of Contents Introduction PART I Perspectives: Understanding Disability 1 Lived Experience of Impairment, Disability and Social Work 2 Theories and Models of Disability 3 Disability from a Life Course Perspective 4 The Legal and Policy Perspective PART II Diversity, Inequality and Disability 5 Inequality, Oppression and Disability 6 Disability and Diversity PART III Disability and Social Work Practice 7 Communication and Engagement 8 Working with Disabled Children 9 Working with Disabled Adults 10 Safeguarding, Social Work and Disability 11 Collaborative Practice Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisMobilizing Metaphor illustrates how radical and unconventional forms of activism, including art, are reshaping the rich and vibrant tradition of disability mobilization in Canada and in the process, challenging perceptions of disability and the politics that surround it.Until now, research on Canadian disability activism has focused on legal and policy spheres and overlooked how disability activism is as varied as the population it represents. Mobilizing Metaphor combines contributions by artists, activists, and academics (including an insightful concluding chapter by renowned disability scholar Tanya Titchkoksy) with rich illustrations and photographs to reveal how disability art is distinctive as both art and social action.As the contributors sketch the shifting contours of disability politics in Canada and show how disability oppression is not isolated from other prejudices, they challenge us to re-examine how we enact social and political change.Table of ContentsIntroductionIntroduction: Mobilizing Metaphor / Christine Kelly and Michael OrsiniPart 1: Assemblages of Disability Research, Art, and Social Transformation1 Fixing: The Claiming and Reclaiming of Disability History / Catherine Frazee, Kathryn Church, and Melanie Panitch2 Imagining Otherwise: The Ephemeral Spaces of Envisioning New Meanings / Carla Rice, Eliza Chandler, and Nadine Changfoot3 PosterVirus: Claiming Sexual Autonomy for People with HIV through Collective Action / Alexander McClelland and Jessica Whitbread4 Deaf and Disability Arts: Insiders, Outsiders, and the Potential of Progressive Studios / Kristin Nelson5 “It Fell on Deaf Ears”: Deafhood through the Graphic Signed Novel as a Form of Artivism / Véro LeducPart 2: Artistic Paths to Disability Activism6 (Dis)quiet in the Peanut Gallery: Performing Social Justice through Integrated Dance / Lindsay Eales7 Battle Lines Drawn: Creative Resistance to Ableism through Online Media / Jeffrey Preston8 Deconstructing Phonocentrism: A New Genre in Deaf Arts / Paula Bath9 Crip the Light Fantastic: Art as Liminal Emancipatory Practice in the Twenty-First Century / jes sachse10 Claiming “the Masters” for Disability Rights: An Artist’s Journey / Diane DriedgerPart 3: Rethinking Agency in Canadian Disability Movements11 Perching as a Strategy for Seeking Legitimacy for Broken Embodiments: Embracing Biomedical Claims for ME / Pamela Moss12 Challenging Rhetorical Indifference with a Cripped Poetry of Witness / Jen Rinaldi and nancy viva davis halifax13 The Body as Resistance Art/ifact: Disability Activism during the 2012 Quebec Student Movement / Gabriel Blouin Genest14 Divided No More: The Toronto Disability Pride March and the Challenges of Inclusive Organizing / Melissa Graham and Kevin Jackson15 Accountability, Agency, and Absence: Embodying Radical Disability Values in Artistic Production / Drew Danielle BelskyConclusion: The Politics of Embracing Disability Metaphor / Tanya TitchkoskyIndex

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Book SynopsisMobilizing Metaphor illustrates how radical and unconventional forms of activism, including art, are reshaping the vibrant tradition of disability activism in Canada, challenging perceptions of disability and the politics that surround it.Table of ContentsIntroductionIntroduction: Mobilizing Metaphor / Christine Kelly and Michael OrsiniPart 1: Assemblages of Disability Research, Art, and Social Transformation1 Fixing: The Claiming and Reclaiming of Disability History / Catherine Frazee, Kathryn Church, and Melanie Panitch2 Imagining Otherwise: The Ephemeral Spaces of Envisioning New Meanings / Carla Rice, Eliza Chandler, and Nadine Changfoot3 PosterVirus: Claiming Sexual Autonomy for People with HIV through Collective Action / Alexander McClelland and Jessica Whitbread4 Deaf and Disability Arts: Insiders, Outsiders, and the Potential of Progressive Studios / Kristin Nelson5 “It Fell on Deaf Ears”: Deafhood through the Graphic Signed Novel as a Form of Artivism / Véro LeducPart 2: Artistic Paths to Disability Activism6 (Dis)quiet in the Peanut Gallery: Performing Social Justice through Integrated Dance / Lindsay Eales7 Battle Lines Drawn: Creative Resistance to Ableism through Online Media / Jeffrey Preston8 Deconstructing Phonocentrism: A New Genre in Deaf Arts / Paula Bath9 Crip the Light Fantastic: Art as Liminal Emancipatory Practice in the Twenty-First Century / jes sachse10 Claiming “the Masters” for Disability Rights: An Artist’s Journey / Diane DriedgerPart 3: Rethinking Agency in Canadian Disability Movements11 Perching as a Strategy for Seeking Legitimacy for Broken Embodiments: Embracing Biomedical Claims for ME / Pamela Moss12 Challenging Rhetorical Indifference with a Cripped Poetry of Witness / Jen Rinaldi and nancy viva davis halifax13 The Body as Resistance Art/ifact: Disability Activism during the 2012 Quebec Student Movement / Gabriel Blouin Genest14 Divided No More: The Toronto Disability Pride March and the Challenges of Inclusive Organizing / Melissa Graham and Kevin Jackson15 Accountability, Agency, and Absence: Embodying Radical Disability Values in Artistic Production / Drew Danielle BelskyConclusion: The Politics of Embracing Disability Metaphor / Tanya TitchkoskyIndex

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Book SynopsisDisabling Barriers analyzes issues relating to disability at different moments in Canadian and American history. In this volume, legal scholars, historians, and disability-rights activists demonstrate that disabled people can change their social status by transforming the political and legal discourse surrounding disablement.Employing tools from the fields of law and history, this original contribution explores how disabled people have been portrayed and treated in a variety of contexts, including within the labour market, the workers' compensation system, the immigration process, and the legal system (both as litigants and as lawyers). It deepens our knowledge of the role of people with disabilities within social movements in disability history. The contributors encourage us to rethink our understanding of both the systemic barriers disabled people face and the capacity of disabled people to effect positive societal change.Trade ReviewDisabled Barriers is an intricate and thorough analysis of the interaction between labour histories and disability rights. The collection introduces a focus that has been largely ignored in the literature but would be quite valuable to researchers of labour and disability studies. -- Sara Klein, Research and Learning Services Librarian, University of Calgary * Canadian Law Library Review, Vol. 43, No. 4 *Table of ContentsForeword / Bryan D. PalmerIntroduction: Bringing History and Law to Disability Studies / Ravi Malhotra and Benjamin IsittPart 1: Historical Debates on Work and Disability1 Bearing the Marks of Capital: Solidarities and Fractures in E.T. Kingsley’s British Columbia / Mark Leier2 Employers, Disabled Workers, and the War on Attitudes in Late Twentieth-Century Canada / Dustin Galer3 Gender and the Value of Work in Canadian Disability History / Geoffrey ReaumePart 2: Debates in Disability Studies4 Dancing with a Cane: The Public Perception of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Disability / Anne Finger5 Disability in Motion: Aesthetics, Embodiment, Sensation, and the Emergence of Modern Vestibular Science in the Nineteenth Century / Mark Walters6 “Of Dark Type and Poor Physique”: Law, Immigration Restriction, and Disability in Canada, 1900–30 / Jen Rinaldi and Jay DolmagePart 3: Legal Debates7 Battling the Warrior-Litigator: An Exploration of Chronic Illness and Employment Discrimination Paradigms / Odelia R. Bay8 Towards Full Inclusion: Addressing the Issue of Income Inequality for People with Disabilities in Canada / Megan A. Rusciano9 Compensating Work-Related Disability: The Theory, Politics, and History of the Commodification-Decommodification Dialectic / Eric TuckerIndex

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Book SynopsisIntersex and/as/is/with disability. The connections between intersex and disability deserve nuanced attention if we are to strengthen intersex human rights claims and understand the experiences of intersex people living with the disabling consequences of medical intervention.Cripping Intersex examines three key themes: the medical management of people with intersex characteristics; the mainstream fascination with sport sex-testing policies and procedures; and the eugenic implications of preimplantation genetic diagnosis. Celeste E. Orr investigates how intersex and interphobia intersect with disability and ableism to propose a new approach to intersex studies and activism. The integration of feminist disability studies with intersex studies provides tools to break down the traditional sex dyad and the entrenched cultural mandate against intersex traits.This necessary work offers a radical new understanding of intersex-with-disability, pushing analyses of inter

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Book SynopsisAble to Lead tells the forgotten story of the life of double amputee E.T. Kingsley, a pioneering politician, and labour and justice activist.Trade ReviewThe authors’ focus on this historical figure enriches and widens the lens on BC’s history. -- Janet Nicol * BC Studies *Able to Lead... portrays the fractured politics of the B.C. labour left, providing an admiring account of the role of one man in that process… [the book] should achieve its stated goal of encouraging a new perception of the capabilities of disabled people while also prompting a rethink of the early North American left. -- Ron Verzuh, documentary filmmaker * The Ormsby Review *Able to Lead paints a vivid picture of a fascinating political figure whose oratory one would have liked to have experienced first-hand. -- Giselle Gerolami * Against the Current *...the book provides a rich and lively account of a dynamic period in the history of the Canadian left— and tantalizing glimpses of an extraordinary man who lived in the thick of it. -- John Baglow * Literary Review of Canada *...Malhotra and Isitt are to be commended for a book that, besides providing extraordinarily useful information on subjects ranging from the ubiquity of railway accidents in the late nineteenth century to the influence of eugenics on Canadian immigration policies at the same time, recognizes that Kingsley, even though he never spoke or wrote of his disability, likely constantly had to make decisions, whether about the class struggle or where to live, that reflected its existence in an ablist world. -- Neil Dhingra, University of Maryland * H-Net *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Incident at Spring Gulch: Disablement, Litigation, and the Birth of a Revolutionary2 California Radical: Fighting for Free Speech and Running for Congress in the Socialist Labor Party3 Crossing the Line: Eugene Kingsley Arrives in British Columbia4 No Compromise: Kingsley and the Socialist Party of Canada5 Kingsley and the State6 The Twilight Years: Kingsley and the 1920s Canadian LeftConclusionAppendix 1: Timeline of the Life and Political Times of E.T. KingsleyAppendix 2: E.T. Kingsley Election ResultsAppendix 3: Partial Record of E.T. Kingsley’s Public Speeches and LecturesAppendix 4: Obituary for E.T. KingsleyNotes; Index

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Book SynopsisAbleism is embedded in Canadian criminal justice institutions, policies, and practices, making incarceration and institutionalization dangerous even deadly for disabled people. Disability Injustice brings together highly original work by a range of scholars and activists who explore disability in the historical and contemporary Canadian criminal justice system.The contributors confront challenging topics such as eugenics and crime control; the pathologizing of difference as deviance; processes of criminalization based on discretionary, biased approaches to physical and mental health; and the role of disability justice activism in contesting longstanding discrimination and exclusion. Weaving together disability and sociolegal studies, criminology, and law, Disability Injustice examines disability in contexts that include policing and surveillance, sentencing and the courts, prisons and other carceral spaces, and alternatives to confinement.This provoTable of Contents1 Resisting the Criminalization of Disability: Cripping Disability Injustice toward Accessible Decarceral Futures / Kelly Fritsch, Jeffrey Monaghan, and Emily van der MeulenPart 1: Practices and Processes of Criminalization2 From Prisoner to Patient: Mental Health and Toronto’s Andrew Mercer Reformatory for Females, 1880–1969 / Theresa L. Raymond 3 Histories of Living in a Negative Relation to the Law: Resistance to HIV Criminalization / Alexander McClelland4 The Criminalization of Sex Work: Creating Conditions for Disability / Lindsay Blewett5 The Judicialization of Everyday Life in Quebec: Intellectual Disability, Sexuality, and Control / Guillaume Ouellet, Lisandre Labrecque-Lebeau, Pierre Pariseau-Legault, and Emmanuelle BernheimPart 2: The Criminal (In)Justice System6 Police Encounters with “People in Crisis”: Mental Health and Policing / Alok Mukherjee 7 Therapeutic Justice or Epistemic Injustice? The Case of Mental Health Courts in Québec / Sue-Ann MacDonald, Véronique Fortin, and Stéphanie Houde8 Conceptualizing Jury Representation: Research on Physical Disability and the “Larger Community” in Canadian Jury Rolls / Richard Jochelson and Michelle Bertrand9 Punishing Disability and Trauma: Evaluating the Use of Segregation in Canadian Prisons / Megan RuscianoPart 3: Reconceptualizing Disability and Reframing Justice10 Disability, Politics, and Collectively Reimagining Justice: Challenging the Ableist Contours of the 1969 Canadian Criminal Code Reform / River Rossi11 The Politics of Death-Making/Assisted Suicide: A Castoriadan Reading / Ravi Malhotra12 #Endpoliceviolence: Nonhegemonic Bodies, Police Violence, and Abolitionist Politics / Abigail Curlew and Jeffrey Monaghan13 Refuting Carceral Logics and their Alternatives: Toward Noncarceral (Disability) Futures / Liat Ben-MosheIndex

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Book SynopsisAbleism is embedded in Canadian criminal justice institutions, policies, and practices, making incarceration and institutionalization dangerous even deadly for disabled people. Disability Injustice brings together highly original work by a range of scholars and activists who explore disability in the historical and contemporary Canadian criminal justice system.The contributors confront challenging topics such as eugenics and crime control; the pathologizing of difference as deviance; processes of criminalization based on discretionary, biased approaches to physical and mental health; and the role of disability justice activism in contesting longstanding discrimination and exclusion. Weaving together disability and sociolegal studies, criminology, and law, Disability Injustice examines disability in contexts that include policing and surveillance, sentencing and the courts, prisons and other carceral spaces, and alternatives to confinement.This provoTable of Contents1 Resisting the Criminalization of Disability: Cripping Disability Injustice toward Accessible Decarceral Futures / Kelly Fritsch, Jeffrey Monaghan, and Emily van der MeulenPart 1: Practices and Processes of Criminalization2 From Prisoner to Patient: Mental Health and Toronto’s Andrew Mercer Reformatory for Females, 1880–1969 / Theresa L. Raymond 3 Histories of Living in a Negative Relation to the Law: Resistance to HIV Criminalization / Alexander McClelland4 The Criminalization of Sex Work: Creating Conditions for Disability / Lindsay Blewett5 The Judicialization of Everyday Life in Quebec: Intellectual Disability, Sexuality, and Control / Guillaume Ouellet, Lisandre Labrecque-Lebeau, Pierre Pariseau-Legault, and Emmanuelle BernheimPart 2: The Criminal (In)Justice System6 Police Encounters with “People in Crisis”: Mental Health and Policing / Alok Mukherjee 7 Therapeutic Justice or Epistemic Injustice? The Case of Mental Health Courts in Québec / Sue-Ann MacDonald, Véronique Fortin, and Stéphanie Houde8 Conceptualizing Jury Representation: Research on Physical Disability and the “Larger Community” in Canadian Jury Rolls / Richard Jochelson and Michelle Bertrand9 Punishing Disability and Trauma: Evaluating the Use of Segregation in Canadian Prisons / Megan RuscianoPart 3: Reconceptualizing Disability and Reframing Justice10 Disability, Politics, and Collectively Reimagining Justice: Challenging the Ableist Contours of the 1969 Canadian Criminal Code Reform / River Rossi11 The Politics of Death-Making/Assisted Suicide: A Castoriadan Reading / Ravi Malhotra12 #Endpoliceviolence: Nonhegemonic Bodies, Police Violence, and Abolitionist Politics / Abigail Curlew and Jeffrey Monaghan13 Refuting Carceral Logics and their Alternatives: Toward Noncarceral (Disability) Futures / Liat Ben-MosheIndex

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Book SynopsisA World without Martha is an unflinching yet compassionate memoir of how one sister's institutionalization for intellectual disability in the 1960s affected the other, sending them both on separate but parallel journeys shaped initially by society's inability to accept difference and later by changing attitudes towards disability, identity, and inclusion.Trade ReviewA World without Martha reminds us that disability is not just an individual issue, it is a family issue. -- David J. Wilson * H-Disability *Table of ContentsAuthor’s Note1 Baby2 Conceptions3 One on Every Street 4 Substitutions5 The Fairy Hill6 Jesus Loves Me7 Fair Exchange8 “Progress and Happiness”9 Revolutions10 Normalization11 Becoming Human12 Into the Fire13 Breakthroughs14 Echoes15 Crossing Over16 Ashes17 Remembering18 Not Ending19 Second Chances20 How Far You’ve Come21 Remember Every NamePostscript; A Note on Sources

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking study of deaf identity, minority politics, and sign language, traces the history of the deaf community in Japan.Trade ReviewNakamura's methodology combines the field techniques of anthropology, archival research, and the political analysis of social movements to gather information on deaf movements in Japan in the postwar era, with the goal of understanding what it means to subscribe to 'deaf identity' in Japan. She frequently includes cross-cultural perspectives from international deaf movements and language systems to contextualize the Japanese case, as well as poses thoughtful and provocative questions about personal and communal identities by comparing the Japanese deaf community to other minority groups in Japan. Nakamura's monograph is extremely important because it explores disability in a wider context—as deafness cuts across all class, ethnic, and gender lines—and explores disability as a social construct for identity formation. -- Carolyn S. Stevens * Journal of Japanese Studies *

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