The Cultural Politics of the Paralympic Movement

Through an Anthropological Lens

By P. David Howe

Do the Paralympic Games empower the disability sport community?

Like many other contemporary sporting institutions, the Paralympic Games have made the transition from pastime to...

Published February 7th 2008 by Routledge.

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Disabled People and the Right to Life

The Protection and Violation of Disabled People’s Most Basic Human Rights

Edited by Luke Clements, Janet Read

The most basic of human rights, the right to life, is the focus of this book.

'Human rights' has increasingly come to be seen as...

Published January 17th 2008 by Routledge.

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Disability

Major Themes in Health and Social Welfare

Edited by Nick Watson

Disability Studies is a relatively new area of academic thought, emerging in its current form in the early 1990s. It is, by its nature, broad...

Published December 13th 2007 by Routledge.

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Disability, Mothers, and Organization

Accidental Activists

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This book examines how and why mothers with disabled children became activists. Leading campaigns to close institutions and secure human rights, these women learned to mother...

Published October 8th 2007 by Routledge.

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Disability Rights and Wrongs

By Tom Shakespeare

Over the last thirty years, the field of disability studies has emerged from the political activism of disabled people. In this challenging review of the...

Published August 31st 2006 by Routledge.

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Overcoming Disabling Barriers

18 Years of Disability and Society

By Len Barton

This book provides a valuable route map to the development of thinking in disability studies over the last eighteen years. It includes over twenty essential articles from...

Published February 9th 2006 by Routledge.

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Disability in Medieval Europe

Thinking about Physical Impairment in the High Middle Ages, c.1100–c.1400

By Irina Metzler

This impressive volume presents a thorough examination of all aspects of physical impairment and disability in medieval Europe. Examining a popular era that is of...

Published December 6th 2005 by Routledge.

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Meeting the Needs of Children with Disabilities

Families and Professionals Facing the Challenge Together

Edited by Helen K. Warner

This textbook provides the reader with an insight into the needs of children with both physical and learning disabilities, particularly within an acute care setting. It...

Published November 17th 2005 by Routledge.

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Leadership and Change in Human Services

Selected Readings from Wolf Wolfensberger

Edited by David Race

For over forty years Wolf Wolfensberger has been a significant figure in the world of human services, especially in the field of learning disability. His...

Published April 24th 2003 by Routledge.

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The Motor Impaired Child

By Mrs Myra Tingle, Myra Tingle

The Motor Impaired Child provides a wealth of information and practical guidance for teachers on both the social and educational implications of impairment. Issues...

Published April 17th 1990 by Routledge.

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