173 books (9 pages) in this category
A Brain's Battle Against a Stroke
My Recovery Combines My Memories of Dad's Approach with Medicine Today
by Robert Sussler
<p>A stroke because it is the blocking of blood flow to tissues within the</p> <p>brain can be life threatening , leave permanent damage, or require the</p> <p>patient to do daily battle with his own brain.</p> <p>The recovery of the stroke ...
ISBN: 9781434315366
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eBookA Day in the Life of an Autistic Mind
by Dennis Adonis
<p>When a mother discovered that her twelve-year-old autistic son has defied the rules of science and suddenly began to show signs that the simplest elements of life can help him to escape the clutches of autism; - she swiftly sent her ...
ISBN: 9781370961580
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eBookA Disability History of the United States
by Kim E. Nielsen
<p><strong>The first book to cover the entirety of disability history, from pre-1492 to the present</strong><br /> * *<br /> Disability is not just the story of someone we love or the story of whom we may become; rather it is undoubtedly the ...
ISBN: 9780807022030
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eBookA Feminist Ethnography of Secure Wards for Women with Learning Disabilities
Locked Away
by Rebecca Fish
<p>What is life like for women with learning disabilities detained in a secure unit? This book presents a unique ethnographic study conducted in a contemporary institution in England.</p> <p>Rebecca Fish takes an interdisciplinary approach, ...
ISBN: 9781351614719
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eBookAbout Autism, Freudianism and Materialism
by Berthajane Vandegrift
The Freudian view seemed to be that people consist of Ids, ego's and superego's. People are supposedly also inhabited by something called a subconscious, a mysterious entity with a tendency to think naughty thoughts and keep them a secret from ...
ISBN: 9781456719715
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eBookHabitual Favourites
by Robert Rourke
<p>This innovative book places the sensory experiences of autistic individuals within a sociological framework. It instigates new discussions around sensory experience, autism and how disability and ability can be reconceived.</p> <p>Autism is ...
ISBN: 9781351031486
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eBookSocial Work with the Families of Disabled Children
by Caroline Glendinning
<p>First published in 1986, this study explores the increased public concern with policies of ‘community care’ and their effects on informal carers, at that time. It looks at the widespread evidence that one particular group of informal carers- ...
ISBN: 9781317360582
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eBookA Sociological Approach to Acquired Brain Injury and Identity
by Jonathan Harvey
<p>Inspired by the author’s personal experience of sustaining acquired brain injury (ABI), this path-breaking book explores the (re)construction of identity after ABI. It offers a way of understanding ABI through a social scientific lens, ...
ISBN: 9781317186694
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eBookAbout Us: Essays from the New York Times' Disability Series
by The New York Times Company
<p><strong>Based on the pioneering <em>New York Times</em> series, <em>About Us</em> collects the personal essays and reflections that have transformed the national conversation around disability.</strong></p> <p>Since its debut in 2016, the ...
ISBN: 9781631495861
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eBookAdventures of a Deaf-Mute and Other Short Pieces
by William B. Swett
<p>In <em>Adventures of a Deaf-Mute</em>, Deaf New Englander William B. Swett recounts his adventures in the White Mountains of New Hampshire in the late 1860s. Given to us in short, energetic episodes, Swett tells daring stories of narrow ...
ISBN: 9781563686849
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eBookThe Weight of Life at Walter Reed
by Zoë H. Wool
<p>In <em>After War</em> Zoë H. Wool explores how the American soldiers most severely injured in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars struggle to build some kind of ordinary life while recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Center from grievous ...
ISBN: 9780822375098
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eBookAll My Relations: Understanding the Experiences of Native Americans with Disabilities
by Hilary N. Weaver & Francis K. Yuen
<p>Native Americans suffer disproportionately from many social and health disparities. High rates of poverty, exposure to environmental toxins, and various forms of violence all increase the risk of health problems, including disabilities, yet ...
ISBN: 9781315470672
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eBookDisabled Pets and the People Who Love Them
by Mary A. Shafer, Susan Bertrand, Joyce Grant-Smith & others
<p>Everyone loves a story about well-muscled retrievers barreling after thrown balls or elegant, longhaired cats commanding the attention of all in a room. But what about those less fortunate companion animals, whose experiences have robbed
ISBN: 1230001324693
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eBookby Starr Nicole
<p>My mom had multiple sclerosis, and it screwed up my whole family. This not just her story; it is my family’s story about how we all coped with my mom’s progressive condition in our own different ways. One was ashamed and fled—he was my ...
ISBN: 9781796032437
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eBookAssistive Technology for People with Disabilities
by Denis K. Anson
<p>Assistive technology can be used in two ways: to help people with disabilities to do things that people without disabilities can do without technology, and to improve access to everyday technology that is not designed for people with ...
ISBN: 9781440835124
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eBookBiomedical Logics and Violence in Twenty-First-Century America
by Jennifer Terry
<p>In <em>Attachments to War</em> Jennifer Terry traces how biomedical logics entangle Americans in a perpetual state of war. Focusing on the Afghanistan and Iraq wars between 2002 and 2014, Terry identifies the presence of a biomedicine-war ...
ISBN: 9780822372806
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eBookOn Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness
by Melanie Yergeau
<p>In <em>Authoring Autism</em> Melanie Yergeau defines neurodivergence as an identity—neuroqueerness—rather than an impairment. Using a queer theory framework, Yergeau notes the stereotypes that deny autistic people their humanity and the ...
ISBN: 9780822372189
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eBookPersonal Narratives of Disability
by Michelle Jarman, Leila Monaghan & Alison Quaggin Harkin
<p>What is the direct impact that disability studies has on the lives of disabled people today? The editors and contributors to this essential anthology, <em>Barriers and Belonging,</em> provide thirty-seven personal narratives thatexplore what ...
ISBN: 9781439913895
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eBookInside the Unseen World of Baseball for the Blind
by David Wanczyk
<p>In <em>Beep,</em> David Wanczyk illuminates the sport of blind baseball to show us a remarkable version of America’s pastime. With balls tricked out to squeal three times per second, and with bases that buzz, this game of baseball for the ...
ISBN: 9780804040822
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eBookAn Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
by Kristen Joiner & Judith E. Heumann
<p><strong>A powerful memoir by one of the most influential disability rights activists in U.S. history and a manifesto for the future of accessibility.</strong></p> <p>Paralyzed from polio and raised by her Holocaust surviving parents, Judy ...
ISBN: 9780807019382
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