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This book examines how and why mothers with disabled children became activists Leading campaigns to close institutions and secure human rights these womennbsplearned to mother as activists struggling in their homes and communities against the debilitating and demoralizing effects of exclusion Activist mothers recognized the importance of becoming advocates for change beyond their own families and contributed to building an organization to place their issues on a more public scale In highlighting this underexamined movement this book contributes to the scholarship on Disability Studies Womens Students Sociology and Social Movement Studies
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Following the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities attention has focused on ways to remove barriers to the participation of people with disabilities in their societies Now a new publication the first ever World Report on Disabilities produced joinly by the WHO and the World Bank reviews evidence about the situation of disabled people and offers directions for policy and practice which can help overcome exclusionThe report contains chapters on health rehabilitation assistance and support enabling environments education and employment The voices of people with disabilities open each chapter setting the scene for what follows Within the chapters case studies show how many countries have succeeded in promoting good practices The diverse challenges faced in low middle and high income settings are differentiated wherever possibleImportantly the report also includes the first new disability prevalence estimates since the 1970s Global trends such as the ageing population and the increasing importance of chronic diseases mean that the prevalence of disability is likely to rise in the future The report makes the case for better data collection using the International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health Overall there are major evidence gaps in the disability field and the report argues that more research and disaggregated data are needed to show what works to improve the lives of persons with disabilitiesThis pioneering report shows how removing barriers to mainstream services and investing in rehabilitation support services and more accessible environments can ensure that millions of people with disabilities can participate in education employment and wider society At the intersection of public health human rights and development the World Report on Disabilities will be required reading for policymakers professionals and advocates for people with disabilities and their families
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Based on a study of 12 women in the West Midlands of England Read applied social studies U of Warwick explores the perspectives of mothers of disabled sons and daughters about how they find themselves acting as mediators between their children and a world that can be hostile to their interests They detail the ways in which they attempt to present their children to the world and the world to their children in both formal and informal interactions and describe challenging discussions with children and other family members as well as battles and negotiations elsewhere She links their particular experiences with wider research and theory on motherhood and caring the life patterns of disabled children and discrimination Distributed in the US by Taylor and Francis Annotation c Book News Inc Portland OR booknewscom
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Dangerous Pregnancies tells the largely forgotten story of the German measles epidemic of the early 1960s and how it created national anxiety about dying disabled and dangerous babies This epidemic would ultimately transform abortion politics produce new science and help build two of the most enduring social movements of the late twentieth centurythe reproductive rights and the disability rights movements At most a minor rash and fever for women German measles also known as rubella if contracted during pregnancy could result in miscarriages infant deaths and serious birth defects in the newborn Awardwinning writer Leslie J Reagan chronicles for the first time the discoveries and dilemmas of this disease in a book full of intimate storiesincluding riveting courtroom testimony secret investigations of women and doctors for abortion and startling media portraits of children with disabilities In exploring a disease that changed America Dangerous Pregnancies powerfully illuminates social movements that still shape individual lives pregnancy medicine law and politics
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Dangerous Pregnancies tells the largely forgotten story of the German measles epidemic of the early 1960s and how it created national anxiety about dying disabled and dangerous babies This epidemic would ultimately transform abortion politics produce new science and help build two of the most enduring social movements of the late twentieth centurythe reproductive rights and the disability rights movements At most a minor rash and fever for women German measles also known as rubella if contracted during pregnancy could result in miscarriages infant deaths and serious birth defects in the newborn Awardwinning writer Leslie J Reagan chronicles for the first time the discoveries and dilemmas of this disease in a book full of intimate storiesincluding riveting courtroom testimony secret investigations of women and doctors for abortion and startling media portraits of children with disabilities In exploring a disease that changed America Dangerous Pregnancies powerfully illuminates social movements that still shape individual lives pregnancy medicine law and politics
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Under the Americans with Disabilities Act organizations that fail to provide reasonable accommodations to employees with mental disabilities may be subject to penalties and punitive damages The Act does not however provide useful guidelines to help organizations complya gap that Dr Fielders book now fills This manual shows that compliance is not difficult or expensive In clear concise language it acquaints management with mental diagnoses impairments disabilities the myths of mental illness and its affect on job performance and provides samples of workplace accommodations and compliance plans Practical and readable the book is intended for management of organizations with 15 or more employees their human resource staffs and employee assistance professionals and legal counsel
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Under the Americans with Disabilities Act organizations that fail to provide reasonable accommodations to employees with mental disabilities may be subject to penalties and punitive damages The Act does not however provide useful guidelines to help organizations complya gap that Dr Fielders book now fills This manual shows that compliance is not difficult or expensive In clear concise language it acquaints management with mental diagnoses impairments disabilities the myths of mental illness and its affect on job performance and provides samples of workplace accommodations and compliance plans Practical and readable the book is intended for management of organizations with 15 or more employees their human resource staffs and employee assistance professionals and legal counsel
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A mothers deeply moving account of raising a son with Down syndrome in a world crowded with contradictory attitudes toward disabilities Rachel Adamss life had always gone according to plan She had an adoring husband a beautiful twoyearold son a sunny Manhattan apartment and a position as a tenured professor at Columbia University Everything changed with the birth of her second child Henry Just minutes after he was born doctors told her that Henry had Down syndrome and she knew that her life would never be the samenbspIn this honest selfcritical and surprisingly funny book Adams chronicles the first three years of Henrys life and her own transformative experience of unexpectedly becoming the mother of a disabled child A highly personal story of one familys encounter with disability Raising Henry is also an insightful exploration of todays knotty terrain of social prejudice disability policy genetics prenatal testing medical training and inclusive education Adams untangles the contradictions of living in a society that is more enlightened and supportive of people with disabilities than ever before yet is racing to perfect prenatal tests to prevent children like Henry from being born Her book is gripping beautifully written and nearly impossible to put down Once read her familys story is impossible to forget
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An estimated one billion people around the globe live with a disability this number grows exponentially when family members friends and care providers are included Various countries and international organizations have attempted to guard against discrimination and secure basic human rights for those whose lives are affected by disability Yet despite such attempts many disabled persons in the United States and throughout the world still face exclusion from full citizenship and membership in their respective societies They are regularly denied employment housing health care access to buildings and the right to move freely in public spaces At base such discrimination reflects a tacit yet pervasive assumption that disabled persons do not belong in societyCivil Disabilities challenges such norms and practices urging a reconceptualization of disability and citizenship to secure a rightful place for disabled persons in society Essays from leading scholars in a diversity of fields offer critical perspectives on current citizenship studies which still largely assume an ableist world Placing historians in conversation with anthropologists sociologists with literary critics and musicologists with political scientists this interdisciplinary volume presents a compelling case for reimagining citizenship that is more consistent inclusive and just in both theory and practice By placing disability front and center in academic and civic discourse Civil Disabilities tests the very notion of citizenship and transforms our understanding of disability and belongingContributors Emily Abel Douglas C Baynton Susan Burch Allison C Carey Faye Ginsburg Nancy J Hirschmann Hannah Joyner Catherine Kudlick Beth Linker Alex Lubet Rayna Rapp Susan Schweik Tobin Siebers Lorella Terzi
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An estimated one billion people around the globe live with a disability this number grows exponentially when family members friends and care providers are included Various countries and international organizations have attempted to guard against discrimination and secure basic human rights for those whose lives are affected by disability Yet despite such attempts many disabled persons in the United States and throughout the world still face exclusion from full citizenship and membership in their respective societies They are regularly denied employment housing health care access to buildings and the right to move freely in public spaces At base such discrimination reflects a tacit yet pervasive assumption that disabled persons do not belong in societyCivil Disabilities challenges such norms and practices urging a reconceptualization of disability and citizenship to secure a rightful place for disabled persons in society Essays from leading scholars in a diversity of fields offer critical perspectives on current citizenship studies which still largely assume an ableist world Placing historians in conversation with anthropologists sociologists with literary critics and musicologists with political scientists this interdisciplinary volume presents a compelling case for reimagining citizenship that is more consistent inclusive and just in both theory and practice By placing disability front and center in academic and civic discourse Civil Disabilities tests the very notion of citizenship and transforms our understanding of disability and belongingContributors Emily Abel Douglas C Baynton Susan Burch Allison C Carey Faye Ginsburg Nancy J Hirschmann Hannah Joyner Catherine Kudlick Beth Linker Alex Lubet Rayna Rapp Susan Schweik Tobin Siebers Lorella Terzi
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An estimated one billion people around the globe live with a disability this number grows exponentially when family members friends and care providers are included Various countries and international organizations have attempted to guard against discrimination and secure basic human rights for those whose lives are affected by disability Yet despite such attempts many disabled persons in the United States and throughout the world still face exclusion from full citizenship and membership in their respective societies They are regularly denied employment housing health care access to buildings and the right to move freely in public spaces At base such discrimination reflects a tacit yet pervasive assumption that disabled persons do not belong in societyCivil Disabilities challenges such norms and practices urging a reconceptualization of disability and citizenship to secure a rightful place for disabled persons in society Essays from leading scholars in a diversity of fields offer critical perspectives on current citizenship studies which still largely assume an ableist world Placing historians in conversation with anthropologists sociologists with literary critics and musicologists with political scientists this interdisciplinary volume presents a compelling case for reimagining citizenship that is more consistent inclusive and just in both theory and practice By placing disability front and center in academic and civic discourse Civil Disabilities tests the very notion of citizenship and transforms our understanding of disability and belongingContributors Emily Abel Douglas C Baynton Susan Burch Allison C Carey Faye Ginsburg Nancy J Hirschmann Hannah Joyner Catherine Kudlick Beth Linker Alex Lubet Rayna Rapp Susan Schweik Tobin Siebers Lorella Terzi
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Examining mothers of newly diagnosed disabled children within the context of new reproductive technologies and the discourse of choice this book uses anthropology and disability studies to revise the concept of normal and to establish a social environment in which the expression of full lives will prevail
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