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  • Disability in the Time of Pandemic

    Series Book 13 - Research in Social Science and Disability
    COVID-19 has once again illuminated the ways in which health risks and negative health outcomes are tied to economic and social inequalities. Disabled people rank among those most disadvantaged in terms of education, income, and social inclusion and this exacerbated their risk of negative pandemic-related outcomes. From the start, it was clear that disabled people would be disproportionately ... Read more

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  • New Narratives of Disability

    Constructions, Clashes, and Controversies

    Series Book 11 - Research in Social Science and Disability
    This volume explores questions about narrative frameworks in disability research. Narrative is a omnipresent meaning-producing communication form in social life that is both cultural and personal.Public understandings of disability tend to follow a medical storyline in which disability is a personal tragedy to be treated through professional intervention - a frame that disempowers and fails to ... Read more

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  • Sociology Looking at Disability

    What Did we Know and When Did we Know it?

    Series Book 9 - Research in Social Science and Disability
    Current research in Sociology of Disability has a tendency to assume that very little written in this area until the last 20 years. However, this is not always the case. In part the lack of awareness of older writing occurs because of the ease of computerized searching for recent references or a sense that newer is better. It also reflects the assumption that Sociology as a field has ignored ... Read more

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  • Police Code of Silence in Times of Change

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
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  • Creating Safe and Supportive Learning Environments

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  • Homelessness & Health in Canada

    Series series Health and Society
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  • Madness, Distress and the Politics of Disablement

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    Gender Equality, #3

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    Series series Public Health/AAHE
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