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Disability
The chapter discusses the social construction of disability presenting the main elements in the debate on history, definition, and data on...
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Disability History: Introduction
This introduction offers a succinct overview of the five chapters contained in the History of Disability section of this handbook and highlights...
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Disability Practice Safeguarding Quality Service Delivery
This open access book critically engages with the social, political and ethical implications of support for people with disability to be fully...
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Disability and Populism
Disability, as a socially and culturally constructed condition, has subjected many individuals globally to a marginalized state. Populist leaders and...
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Handbook of Disability Critical Thought and Social Change in a Globalizing World
This important reference work maps the terrain of disability across the world by providing an overview of issues, concerns and developments in the...
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Understanding Disability, Disability Sport and Inclusion
The country-specific chapters in this handbook give a comparative overview of the different ways various countries across Europe attempt to include...
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Transhumanism and Disability
This chapter examines the transhumanist approach to disability focusing on its defining feature: human enhancement. The study of what underlies the...
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Understanding Disability Interdisciplinary Critical Approaches
This edited volume brings together contributions on disability studies organized around two themes: literary and sociological aspects. The...
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Disability in US History
People with diverse bodies and minds have existed since the origins of human habitation in what is now the United States, but how that diversity has...
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Disability History: Introduction
This introduction offers a succinct overview of the five chapters contained in the History of Disability section of this Handbook and highlights...
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Disability-Inclusive Disaster-Resilient Village
Climate change-induced disasters, directly and indirectly, impact the lives and livelihoods of persons with disabilities. Koyra, Dacope, Paikgacha...
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Disability Activism and Advocacy: Introduction
The second decade of the twenty-first century has witnessed a multitude of significant changes that have engendered systemic shifts, civic...
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Disability Activism and Advocacy: Introduction
The second decade of the twenty-first century has witnessed a multitude of significant changes that have engendered systemic shifts, civic...
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Disability in Intersectionality and Vice Versa
This chapter maintains that a close look at disability can help us better understand the power and social structures of inequality and discrimination...
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Disability Sport in Lithuania
The chapter provides an overview of the disability sport system and sport participation by people with disabilities in Lithuania. Lithuania laws...
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Transnational History of Disability: Reflections
Transnational history is a research perspective that has been widely legitimized and popularized over the past decade, but few disability historians...
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Leadership and Disability Studies: Inclusive Development
There can be little doubt that sociology has played a key role in our understanding of the process of disablement. Yet most sociologists have ignored...
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Disability, Ethics, and Law: Introduction
This section explores the intersection between disability, law, and ethics, and anticipates the challenges that the twenty-first century will bring....
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Disability, Ethics, and Law: Introduction
This section explores the intersection between disability, law, and ethics, and anticipates the challenges that the twenty-first century will bring....
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Thinking About Disability: Implications for Practice
This chapter considers the diversity of people with disabilities, highlighting their common experiences of significant social disadvantage on all...
