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...

January 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40714-4 (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...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-41075-5 (Routledge)

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Disability, Mothers, and Organization

Accidental Activists

By Melanie Panitch

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...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95850-9 (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...

2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-34719-8 (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...

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-37875-8 (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...

2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-36503-1 (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...

2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-28038-9 (Routledge)

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Planning For Life

Involving Adults with Learning Disabilities in Service Planning

By Liam Concannon

This book traces the development of services for people with disabilities and discusses how much things have really changed for today's 'service users' since the...

2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-35157-7 (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...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-30563-1 (Routledge)

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Practice Issues in Sexuality and Learning Disabilities

Edited by Ann Craft

Practice Issues in Sexuality and Learning Disabilities explores the sexual behaviour of people with learning difficulties and addresses issues of concern such as sexual abuse,...

1993 | Paperback: 978-0-415-05735-6 (Routledge)

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