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Moving from examinations of narratives about disability and illness, the stigmatizing things that healthcare providers unwittingly say to their patients, and communication problems in the intensive care unit, to more personal reflections on anger, isolation, and stories of tragedy, tis work also discusses disability in the workplace.

When ethnomethodologist Albert Robillard began to suffer the symptoms of motor-neuron disease, he realized he was a living laboratory for revealing the countless taken-for-granted methods people use to produce being together. Meaning of a Disability is a detailed autobiography of the experiences and trained observations of a university professor who became paralyzed in mid-life.

With his loss of speech, Robillard was forced to communicate through a lipreading system developed by his wife and student assistants. Restricted by this form of communication and his paralysis, he soon learned the...

Offers a theoretical perspective on the study of social change in the Pacific islands, covering: Hawaii, French Polynesia, American and Western Samoa, Tonga, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Kiribati, the Marshall and Caroline islands, Guam and the northern Marianas islands.