New York University Press. 2015 - 635 p. Keywords for Disability Studies aims to broaden and define the conceptual framework of disability studies for readers and practitioners in the field and beyond. The volume engages some of the most pressing debates of our time, such as prenatal testing, euthanasia, accessibility in public transportation and the workplace, post-traumatic...
SAGE Publications, 2001. — 865 p. This path-breaking Handbook of Disability Studies signals the emergence of a vital new area of scholarship, social policy and activism. Drawing on the insights of disability scholars around the world and the creative advice of an international editorial board, the book engages the reader in the critical issues and debates framing disability...
Springer Science-Business Media, LLC. 1999. ISBN: 0-387-32516-6 (soft cover) ISBN: 978-0387-32516-3. ISBN: 0-306-46069-6 (hard cover). (627 p.). Series: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research Series Editor: Howard B. Kaplan. Most of this handbook is devoted to the explanation of one elementary observation: Disorder is not uniformly distributed throughout society, but occurs...
Polity, 2002. — 288 p. Over recent years there has been an unprecedented upsurge of interest in the general area of disability and disability studies amongst academics and researchers throughout the world. This has generated an increasingly expansive literature, from a variety of perspectives, including cultural studies, development studies, geography, history, philosophy,...
SensePublishers, 2013. — 146 p. A Liberating Research Agenda: On Hearing Voices and Developing a Way of Seeing Researching Disability Discourses, User Constructs and Practitioner Perspectives in Care Management Practices Researching Disability Politics The Elusive Search for Inclusive Education in a Comparative Study Research In Policymaking In Education Researching Disability...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 357 p. "A doctor can damage a patient as much with a misplaced word as with a slip of the scalpel." In this statement, from Lawrence J. Henderson, a famous physician whose name is part of the basic science of medicine, epitomizes the central theme of The Word as Scalpel. If words, the main substance of human relations, are so potent for harm,...
Routledge, 2014. — 190 p. Whilst legislation may have progressed internationally and nationally for disabled people, barriers continue to exist, of which one of the most pervasive and ingrained is attitudinal. Social attitudes are often rooted in a lack of knowledge and are perpetuated through erroneous stereotypes, and ultimately these legal and policy changes are ineffectual...
13th ed. — Routledge, 2015. — 448 p. — ISBN: 0205896413, 9780205896417 For upper-division undergraduate/beginning graduate-level courses in Medical Sociology, and for Behavioral Science courses in schools of Public Health, Medicine, Pharmacy, and Nursing. A comprehensive overview of the most current issues in medical sociology. The standard text in the field, Medical Sociology...
Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2010. — 616 p. — (The Blackwell Companions to Sociology). — ISBN: 978-1-4051-8868-5. The New Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology is the latest book in Blackwell’ s Companion series that brings together leading scholars in the various subdisciplines of sociology to provide current discussions of the most important issues and research in their...
Simon & Schuster. 2016. - 320 p. Bestselling author David Agus unveils the brave new world of medicine, one in which we can take control of our health like never before and doctors can fine-tune strategies and weapons to prevent illness. In his first bestseller, The End of Illness, David Agus revealed how to add vibrant years to your life by knowing the real facts of health. In...
4th ed. — Routledge, 2014. — 581 p. The Fourth Edition of the Disability Studies Reader breaks new ground by emphasizing the global, transgender, homonational, and posthuman conceptions of disability. Including physical disabilities, but exploring issues around pain, mental disability, and invisible disabilities, this edition explores more varieties of bodily and mental...
Ashgate, 2015. — 212 p. As a response to real or imagined subordination, popular culture reflects the everyday experience of ordinary people and has the capacity to subvert the hegemonic order. Drawing on central theoretical approaches in the field of critical disability studies, this book examines disability across a number of internationally recognised texts and objects from...
Routledge, 2010. — 185 p. Disability and New Media examines how digital design is triggering disability when it could be a solution. Video and animation now play a prominent role in the World Wide Web and new types of protocols have been developed to accommodate this increasing complexity. However, as this has happened, the potential for individual users to control how the...
5th edition. — Oxford University Press, 2014. — 556 p. — ISBN: 9780195520149 Second Opinion: An Introduction to Health Sociology fifth edition is the leading health sociology textbook for Australian students. Accompanied by comprehensive online resources with innovative teaching and learning materials, this outstanding teaching text introduces students to the theories, concepts...
SAGE, 2011. — 233 p. This introduction to disability studies represents a clear, engaging, and consistently thought-provoking study of the field. The book discusses the global nature of disability studies and disability politics, introduces key debates in the field and represents the intersections of disability studies with feminism, queer, and postcolonial theory. The book has...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 315 p. Disability, Poverty and Development: Mapping the Terrain Guatemala: Landscapes Disability in the Spaces of Poverty: Critical Theoretical Introductions Disability and Poverty: Connections and Transitions Disability and Poverty: Connections and Transitions Part 2 The Disabled Family: From Survival Struggles to Collective Impoverishment The...
Indiana University Press, 2011. — 337 p. Disability, like questions of race, gender, and class, is one of the most provocative topics among theorists and philosophers today. This volume, situated at the intersection of feminist theory and disability studies, addresses questions about the nature of embodiment, the meaning of disability, the impact of public policy on those who...
New York, USA: Routledge, 2010. — 230 p. — (Routledge Research in Human Rights Law). — ISBN: 041547938X. This book brings together an impressive array of internationally renowned scholars in the areas of law, philosophy and health policy to critically interrogate the development of rights based approaches to health. The volume integrates discussion of the right to health at a...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 275 p. The Oxford Handbook of Disability Studies represents a comprehensive state of current research for the field of Disability Studies and Music. The forty-two chapters in the book span a wide chronological and geographical range, from the biblical, the medieval, and the Elizabethan, through the canonical classics of the eighteenth and...
Gyan Publishing House, 2001. — 348 p. The evolution of Disability Studies as a separate field of academic discipline reflects the change in the conceptual framework of disability. During recent years the increasing pace of globalisation and liberalisation have tremendously influenced the academia. Consequently, academics can no longer pursue their own interests secure in the...
Routledge, 2006. — 297 p. — ISBN: 0415383250. In this book, a team of international contributors examine bodies, leakage and boundaries, illuminating the contradictions and dilemmas in women's healthcare. Using the concept of pollution, this book highlights how women and health issues are categorised, and health workers and women are confined to roles and places defined as...
Elsevier Ltd. First edition 2007. ISBN-13: 9780762313204. ISBN-10: 076231320X. ISSN: 0275-4959 (Series). Series: Research in the Sociology of Health Care. (271 p.). Access, Quality and Satisfaction with Care - Patients and Special Types of Care - Elderly Care Issues - Access, Quality and Satisfaction in Foreign Health Care Systems.
Upper Saddle River, NJ; Prentice Hall. — 1999. — 498 p. — ISBN10: 0130401722; ISBN13: 978-0130401724. Sixth edition. For undergraduate-level courses in Chemistry, Biology, Sociology and Criminal Justice. This text addresses the effects of high-use, high-abuse drugs in America in a timely, straightforward fashion. It reflects the most recent research on the most highly addictive...
University of Hawaii Press, 2014. — 342 p. — ISBN 0824836820, ASIN B00K5I7H7G. Numerous reports of "cancer villages" have appeared in the past decade in both Chinese and Western media, highlighting the downside of China's economic development. Less generally known is how people experience and understand cancer in areas where there is no agreement on its cause. Who or what do...
Routledge, 2016. — 197 p. A crucial contemporary dynamic around children and young people in the Global North is the multiple ways that have emerged to monitor their development, behaviour and character. In particular disabled children or children with unusual developmental patterns can find themselves surrounded by multiple practices through which they are examined. This rich...
Routledge, 2006. - 248 p. Taking forward the debate on the role and power of institutions for treating and incarcerating the insane, this volume challenges recent scholarship and focuses on a wide range of factors impacting on the care and confinement of the insane since 1850, including such things as the community, Poor Law authorities, local government and the voluntary...
Springer, 2014. — 7504 p. The aim of this encyclopedia is to provide a comprehensive reference work on scientific and other scholarly research on the quality of life, including health-related quality of life research or also called patient-reported outcomes research. Since the 1960s two overlapping but fairly distinct research communities and traditions have developed...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 132 p. The Campus Divide: Teacher or Service Provider Religious Texts and Popular Media Logic, Law, and the Fight for Education Disability Services and Higher Education Disability Studies and Higher Education Barriers to Interactions between Disability Studies and Disability Services Potential Impact of Intentional Interaction and Coalition Forming...
Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. 2011. — 584 p. — (Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research). — ISBN: 978-1-4419-7259-044; e-ISBN: 978-1-4419-7261-3. Rethinking Connecting Sociology’s Role in Health, Illness, & Healing, From the Top Down - Connecting Communities - Connecting To Medicine: The Profession and Its Organizations - Connecting To the People: The Public as...
Nova Science Pub Inc, 2010. — 454 p. The International Association for the Scientific Studies of Intellectual Disabilities is an established international organization with links to the World Health Organization, that promotes better social and healthcare for individuals with intellectual disabilities* . It is a multi-professional organization involved in a number of diverse...
VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2012. — 147 S. Disability Studies erlangen in Deutschland, wie auch international mehr und mehr Bedeutung, weil sie einen neuen und differenzierten Blick auf die Kategorien von Behinderung ermöglichen. Die Disability Studies nehmen die Perspektive beeinträchtigter Menschen ein. Theorien und Erkenntnisse werden nicht fachbezogen sondern trans-...
Routledge, 2010. — 220 p. This text is a critical and empirically-based introduction to disability studies. It offers a comprehensive, book-length analysis of disability through the lens of Science and Technology Studies (STS), and presents a practice-oriented discussion of how bodies, senses and things are linked in everyday life and configure "enabling" and "disabling"...
Oxford University Press, 1996. — 288 p. For gay men, the demands of the AIDS epidemic are enormous and unrelenting. Regardless of HIV status, all are called on to maintain vigilant safety with sex, to face down a cultural stigma greater even than homophobia, and to somehow find a way to go forward in a world heavy with loss. As exhaustion and grief threaten to overwhelm the...
SAGE Publications, 2003 - 257 p. Media Health and Everyday Life The Forms of Media Health The Production of Unreality Danger, Fear and Insecurity Villains and Freaks Innocent Victims Professional Heroes Ordinary Heroes Real Men, Real Women
London&New York: Routledge, 2016. — 152 p. In this ground-breaking book, Jenny Slater uses the lens of ‘the reasonable’ to explore how normative understandings of youth, dis/ability and the intersecting identities of gender and sexuality impact upon the lives of young dis/abled people. Although youth and disability have separately been thought within socio-cultural frameworks,...
Routledge, 2017. — 221 p. Drawing on an ethnography of Down’s syndrome screening in two UK clinics, Thomas explores how and why we are so invested in this practice and what effects this has on those involved. Informed by theoretical approaches that privilege the mundane and micro practices, discourses, materials, and rituals of everyday life, Down’s Syndrome Screening and...
Emerald Group, 2015. — 216 p. The terms gender, careers and inequalities were chosen to delineate the conceptual framework of this book - the second volume of a new series focussed on equality, diversity and inclusion issues. Each of the concepts adds to a different and unique dimension to the study of medicine and medical education. Gender allows for a reading of power and...
Routledge, 2006. - 214 p. Collecting together essays written by an international set of contributors, this book provides an important contribution to the emerging field of disability history. It explores changes in understandings of deformity and disability between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries, and reveal the ways in which different societies have conceptualised the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 242 p. A Model of Social and Psychosocial Identity Development for postsecondary students with Physical Disabilities The Ontology of Impairment: Rethinking How We Define Disability Disability, Vietnam, and the Discourse of American Exceptionalism Past Perspectives: What Can Archaeology Offer Disability Studies? Disability Studies and Social Geography...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 193 p. Handicapism Disability, Pain, and the Politics of Minority Identity Historicizing Dis/Ability: Creating Normalcy, Containing Difference Lost and Found in Space: The Geographical Imagination and Disability Musical Becoming: Intellectual Disability and the Transformative Power of Music Lomax’s Matrix: Disability, Solidarity, and the Black Power...
Springer International Publishing; Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 247 p. — (Palgrave Studies in Oral History). Inner-city Sydney was the epicenter of gay life in the Southern hemisphere in the 1970s and early 1980s. Gay men moved from across Australasia to find liberation in the city’s vibrant community networks; and when HIV and AIDS devastated those networks, they grieved,...
Cambridge University Press, 2005 - 287 p. The role of quality assessments in social policy, especially health policy, and ethical and social issues raised by prenatal testing for disability are discussed in this analysis. A theme of the literature has been the role played by controversial assumptions about the quality of life of people with disabilities. This book turns the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 377 p. — (Palgrave Studies in Disability and International Development). — ISBN10: 331974674X, 13 978-3319746746. This handbook questions, debates and subverts commonly held assumptions about disability and citizenship in the global postcolonial context. Discourses of citizenship and human rights, so elemental to strategies for addressing...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 424 p. — (Palgrave Studies in Disability and International Development). — ISBN10: 331974674X, 13 978-3319746746. This handbook questions, debates and subverts commonly held assumptions about disability and citizenship in the global postcolonial context. Discourses of citizenship and human rights, so elemental to strategies for addressing...
Springer, 2018. — 304 p. — (Philosophy and Medicine 129). — ISBN: 978-3-319-92758-9. This collection addresses whether ethicists, like authorities in other fields, can speak as experts in their subject matter. Though ethics consultation is a growing practice in medical contexts, there remain difficult questions about the role of ethicists in professional decision-making....
Routledge, 2012. - 468 p. The Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies takes a multidisciplinary approach to disability and provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of the main issues in the field around the world today. Adopting an international perspective and consisting entirely of newly commissioned chapters arranged thematically, it surveys the state of the...
8th edition. — Routledge, 2015. — 465 p. — ISBN: 978-0-13-380387-7 A comprehensive presentation of the major topics in medical sociology. The Sociology of Health, Healing, and Illness, 8/e by Gregory L. Weiss and Lynne E. Lonnquist provides an in-depth overview of the field of medical sociology. The authors provide solid coverage of traditional topics while providing...
Boston: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2017. — 209 p. The bestselling An Introduction to the Sociology of Health and Illness has long been the go-to text for students looking for a clear, engaging and theoretically informed introduction to this dynamic topic. Written with a truly sociological and critical perspective, and thoroughly updated to include the latest cutting-edge thinking...
Cambridge University Press, 1970. — xiv + 260 p. This book studies the relationship between institutionalism and schizophrenia in the lives of mental patients. The authors observed schizophrenic patients in three different mental hospitals over a period of eight years. Their conclusions are important for the better management of institutions and for the future of extra-mural...
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