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Disability in Local and Global Worlds

By: N/A

Price: $17.50

Publisher: University of California Press: Jun-07

Seller ID: 462448

ISBN: 520246179

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Sex and Disability

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Duke University Press Books: Jan-12

Seller ID: 462450

ISBN: 822351544

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

'Defects': Engendering the Modern Body (Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability)

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: University of Michigan Press: Jan-00

Seller ID: 462460

ISBN: 472066986

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Semiotics and Dis/ability: Interrogating Categories of Difference (Cultural Studies)

By: N/A

Price: $6.00

Publisher: SUNY Press: Mar-01

Seller ID: 462466

ISBN: 791449068

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities (Modern Language Association)

By: N/A

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Modern Language Association, an imprint of Modern Language Association of America: Jan-02

Seller ID: 462468

ISBN: 873529812

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan: May-14

Seller ID: 462467

ISBN: 1137404051

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Disability Incarcerated gathers thirteen contributions from an impressive array of fields. Taken together, these essays assert that a complex understanding of disability is crucial to an understanding of incarceration, and that we must expand what has come to be called 'incarceration.' The chapters in this book examine a host of sites, such as prisons, institutions for people with developmental disabilities, psychiatric hospitals, treatment centers, special education, detention centers, and group homes; explore why various sites should be understood as incarceration; and discuss the causes and...
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Disability/Postmodernity: Embodying Disability Theory

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Continuum: Apr-02

Seller ID: 462470

ISBN: 826450555

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Disability Studies Reader (English, Dutch and Italian Edition)

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Routledge: Aug-06

Seller ID: 462473

ISBN: 415953332

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Embodied Rhetorics: Disability in Language and Culture

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press: Oct-01

Seller ID: 462475

ISBN: 809323931

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Semiotics and Dis/ability: Interrogating Categories of Difference (Cultural Studies)

By: N/A

Price: $7.50

Publisher: SUNY Press: Mar-01

Seller ID: 462478

ISBN: 791449068

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Gendering Disability

By: N/A

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Rutgers University Press: May-04

Seller ID: 462479

ISBN: 813533732

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Disability: The Social, Political, and Ethical Debate (Contemporary Issues)

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Prometheus: Dec-08

Seller ID: 462480

ISBN: 1591026148

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

What is it like to experience disability? What are the prevailing cultural attitudes toward those who experience disability? How do social norms and public policies affect those experiencing disability? This book provides a vivid and concrete introduction to the wealth of social, political and ethical debates that surround the experience of disability.

Beginning with an exploration of the perspective of persons with disabilities, the essays demonstrate the extent to which the disability experience is affected by social and cultural values, attitudes, and policies. In addition to these firs...
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Screening Disability: Essays on Cinema and Disability

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: UPA: Nov-01

Seller ID: 462484

ISBN: 761820175

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Disability, Difference, Discrimination: Perspectives on Justice in Bioethics and Public Policy (Point/Counterpoint: Philosophers Debate Contemporary Issues)

By: Anita Silvers,David Wasserman Clinical Center Department of Bioethics National Institutes of Health,Mary B. Mahowald

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers: Jan-99

Seller ID: 462481

ISBN: 084769223X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

How should we respond to individuals with disabilities? What does it mean to be disabled, and is a disabled person necessarily less independent and less competent than a person who is not disabled? Is a life with a disability a life worth living? In this compelling book, three experts on disability issues, ethics, and the law address several pressing issues in bioethics, including the prospect of genetic discrimination, heroic treatment of seriously impaired neonates, and whether severely impaired competent individuals should be permitted or assisted to die. Anita Silvers, David Wasserman, and...
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