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Interdisciplinary Disability Studies Serie de eBooks

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  • Child Pain, Migraine, and Invisible Disability

    de Susan Honeyman ...
    Series series Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
    In the twenty-first century there is increasing global recognition of pain relief as a basic human right. However, as Susan Honeyman argues in this new take on child pain and invisible disability, such a belief has historically been driven by adult, ideological needs, whereas the needs of children in pain have traditionally been marginalised or overlooked in comparison.Examining migraines in ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

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  • Poisoned

    How a Crime-Busting Prosecutor Turned His Medical Mystery into a Crusade for Environmental Victims

    de Alan Bell ...
    After years of prosecuting hard-core criminals, rising legal star Alan Bell took a private sector job in South Florida’s newest skyscraper. Suddenly, he suffered such bizarre medical symptoms, doctors suspected he’d been poisoned by the Mafia. Bell’s rapidly declining health forced him to flee his glamorous Miami life to a sterile “bubble” in the remote Arizona desert.As his career and marriage ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Unto Us A Child: Abuse And Deception In The Catholic Church

    de Donald T. Phillips ...
    Sexual abuse of children by Roman Catholic clergy is not a new phenomenon. The young brothers and sisters of the Albert family of Wichita Kansas lived through this unholy nightmare in the 1950s a time when the Church and its anointed were nto to be questioned or challenges. Placed by the Wichita municipal government and hte local Catholic diocese in the St. Joseph Home in El Dorado Kansas the ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The Joy of Smoking: The Light-Hearted Look at Lighting Up

    de Sue Carroll & Sue Brealy ...
    Tired of being told to quit, put it out, stand outside, have some consideration, think about your health ...? The list of complaints against smokers would take much longer than a fag break to read out, and many of us (even those who don't smoke) have had just about enough of it! The passive whingeing we endure from the self-righteous is enough to have anyone gasping for another ciggie! Leaping to ... Leer más

    $5.39 USD

  • Alzheimer's

    Hard Questions

    de James Lindemann Nelson, Hilde Lindemann Nelson ...
    Caring for a loved one who is terminally ill can be tremendously stressful under any circumstances. If that person has a degenerative and dementing disease such as Alzheimer's, and is unable to participate in decisions regarding his or her care, the stress is that much greater. When it comes to making those difficult moral and ethical decisions which will preserve the dignity and integrity of the ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Children and Young People’s Cultural Worlds

    Edición de Sarah Bragg, Mary Jane Kehily ...
    Series series Open University Childhood
    Children and young people in the early twenty-first century encounter, and creatively adapt to, a range of cultural phenomena in an increasingly mediated, commercialised and globalised world. Children and young people's cultural worlds offers a critical introduction to childhood in the digital age. Childhood innocence is a concept that often underpins the way adults think about children and new ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Young People Transitioning from Out-of-Home Care

    International Research, Policy and Practice

    Edición de Philip Mendes, Pamela Snow ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book challenges and revises existing ways of thinking about leaving care policy, practice and research at regional, national and international levels. Bringing together contributors from fifteen countries, it covers a range of topical policy and practice issues within national, international or comparative contexts. These include youth justice, disability, access to higher education, the role ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • Gendering Addiction

    The Politics of Drug Treatment in a Neurochemical World

    de N. Campbell, E. Ettorre ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This study, by two leading scholars in the field, draws on feminist theory and science and technology studies to uncover a basic injustice for the human rights of drug-using women: most women who need drug treatment in the US and UK do not get it. Why not? ... Leer más

    $49.49 USD

  • The Disabled Child's Participation Rights

    de Anne-Marie Callus, Ruth Farrugia ...
    Series series Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
    The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is the only UN treaty to date in which the people who are its target, that is disabled people, were actively involved in its drafting and the only one which requires the active participation of disabled people in its implementation. This does not, of course, automatically guarantee the direct participation of all disabled ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Cancer in the Community

    Class and Medical Authority

    de Martha Balshem ...
    Focusing on deep conflicts between the medical establishment and the working class, Martha Balshem chronicles a health education project in “Tannerstown,” a pseudonym for a blue-collar neighborhood in northeast Philadelphia. ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Agency, Gender and Economic Development in the World Economy 1850–2000

    Testing the Sen Hypothesis

    Edición de Jan Luiten van Zanden, Auke Rijpma, Jan Kok ...
    Series series Gender and Well-Being
    How has ‘agency’ – or the ability to define and act upon one’s goals – contributed to global long-term economic development during the last 150 years? This book asserts that autonomous decision making, and female agency in particular, increases the potential of a society to generate economic growth and improve its institutions.Inspired by Amartya Sen’s capabilities approach and looking at this in ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Disability and Postsocialism

    de Teodor Mladenov ...
    Series series Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
    In the decades following the collapse of state socialism at the end of 1980s, disabled people in Central and Eastern Europe endured economic marginalisation, cultural devaluation and political disempowerment. Some of the mechanisms producing these injustices were inherited from state socialism, while others emerged with postsocialist neoliberalisation.State socialism promised social security ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD