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  • Reading Victorian Deafness

    Series series Series in Victorian Studies
    Reading Victorian Deafness is the first book to address the crucial role that deaf people, and their unique language of signs, played in Victorian culture. Drawing on a range of works, from fiction by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, to poetry by deaf poets and life writing by deaf memoirists Harriet Martineau and John Kitto, to scientific treatises by Alexander Graham Bell and Francis Galton, ... Leer más

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    A Memoir of My Father

    "As a little boy, I had a dream that my father had taken me to the woods where there was a dead body. He buried it and told me I must never tell. It was the only thing we'd ever done together as father and son, and I promised not to tell. But unlike most dreams, the memory of this one never left me. And sometimes…I wasn't altogether sure about one thing: was it just a dream?"When Augusten ... Leer más

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  • Switching Time

    A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman with 17 Personalities

    de Richard Baer ...
    In 1989, a woman walked into Dr. Richard Baer’s office asking for help with memory loss. Thus begins the first and only complete account of Dissociative Identity Disorder treatment told from inside the consulting room.“An absorbing journey through a psychiatrist’s dauntingly challenging first case—from the beginning of therapy to stable integration and recovery. Vivid, loaded with fascinating ... Leer más

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  • Pain and Prejudice

    What Science Can Learn about Work from the People Who Do It

    de Karen Messing ...
    In 1978, when workers at a nearby phosphate refinery learned that the ore they processed was contaminated with radioactive dust, Karen Messing, then a new professor of molecular genetics, was called in to help. Unsure of what to do with her discovery that exposure to the radiation was harming the workers and their families, Messing contacted senior colleagues but they wouldn’t help. Neither the ... Leer más

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  • Narrative Prosthesis

    Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse

    Series series Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
    Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse develops a narrative theory of the pervasive use of disability as a device of characterization in literature and film. It argues that, while other marginalized identities have suffered cultural exclusion due to a dearth of images reflecting their experience, the marginality of disabled people has occurred in the midst of the ... Leer más

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  • Rocks

    One Man's Climb From Drugs to Dreams

    Marco Broccardo was an ordinary boy from an ordinary family. He had parents who loved him and older sisters who doted on their little brother. He had friends and he played sport at school. Schoolboy experimentation with weed quickly turned to coke and ecstasy. Drugs made him feel great. What was the harm? The trouble came when supply and demand were out of balance and a harmless joint and a couple ... Leer más

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  • Disability Research Today

    International Perspectives

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    Grouped around four central themes – illness and impairment, disabling processes, care and control, and communication and representations – this collection offers a fresh perspective on disability research, showing how theory and data can be brought together in new and exciting ways.Disability Research Today starts by showing how engaging with issues around illness and impairment is vital to a ... Leer más

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  • Contagious

    Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative

    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    How should we understand the fear and fascination elicited by the accounts of communicable disease outbreaks that proliferated, following the emergence of HIV, in scientific publications and the mainstream media? The repetition of particular characters, images, and story lines—of Patients Zero and superspreaders, hot zones and tenacious microbes—produced a formulaic narrative as they circulated ... Leer más

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  • Conversing with Cancer

    How to Ask Questions, Find and Share Information, and Make the Best Decisions

    Series Libro 22 - Language as Social Action
    With more than 40% of people eventually facing a cancer diagnosis, Conversing with Cancer is a much-needed addition to understanding and improving cancer care through strong communication among providers, patients, and caregivers. Each person whose life is affected by a cancer diagnosis—patient, healthcare provider, caregiver—has information and needs information in order to make the best ... Leer más

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  • Health Rights Are Civil Rights

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    Health Rights Are Civil Rights tells the story of the important place of health in struggles for social change in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s. Jenna M. Loyd describes how Black freedom, antiwar, welfare rights, and women’s movement activists formed alliances to battle oppressive health systems and structural violence, working to establish the principle that health is a right. For a time ... Leer más

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  • The Disabled Child's Participation Rights

    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

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  • Susie Que A Bipolar and Alcoholic

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    Born into a large family in the Appalachian Mountains, Susie Que eventually moved to the big city. Her life turned around in varied directions with many ups and downs, not following a normal path as she developed two major illnesses, ones her siblings did not have.This story tells how one person survived through the years with the decisions she made showing the good and the bad while she suffers ... Leer más

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