Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> People with Disabilities

The London 2012 Paralympic Games - the biggest, most accessible and best-attended games in the Paralympics' 64-year history - came with an explicit aim to "transform the perception of disabled people in society," and use sport to contribute to "a better world for all people with a disability." This social agenda offered the potential to re-frame disability; to symbolically challenge "ableist" ideology and to offer a reinvention of the (dis)abled body and a redefinition of the possible. This edited collection investigates what has and is happening in relation to these ambitions. The book is...

We are confronted by neoliberalism and the inhumane consequences of its economic policies. The claim that -there is no alternative- to profit-making simply denies basic features of everyday reality. The Politics of Disability asks: Just where does all of this leave people with disabilities? What are their alternatives? They are among the most downtrodden people, frequently treated as losers for not trying hard enough. This meritocratic principle is antiquated and yet as a basic element of a political system it means that here is at most a little left-over welfare for those with...

"Rainbow Living" is a charity that seeks to provide housing and support for people with disabilities. This book describes the events that prompted the formation of the charity. It is a story detailing real lives, the challenges faced by young people and their families, and their journey to live independent lives. It is a story of faith, hope, and trust in God, who works through all situations to reveal His immeasurable love for each of us.If you are a parent with a child who has a disability, a person with a disability, or simply someone who wants to read an inspirational account of other...

"Rainbow Living" is a charity that seeks to provide housing and support for people with disabilities. This book describes the events that prompted the formation of the charity. It is a story detailing real lives, the challenges faced by young people and their families, and their journey to live independent lives. It is a story of faith, hope, and trust in God, who works through all situations to reveal His immeasurable love for each of us.If you are a parent with a child who has a disability, a person with a disability, or simply someone who wants to read an inspirational account of other...

Thousands of wounded servicemen returned to Japan following the escalation of Japanese military aggression in China in July 1937. Tens of thousands would return home after Japan widened its war effort in 1939. In Casualties of History, Lee K. Pennington relates for the first time in English the experiences of Japanese wounded soldiers and disabled veterans of Japan's -long- Second World War (from 1937 to 1945). He maps the terrain of Japanese military medicine and social welfare practices and establishes the similarities and differences that existed between Japanese and Western...

This book explores the position of Islamic theology and jurisprudence towards people with disabilities. It investigates how early and modern Muslim scholars tried to reconcile their existence with the concept of a merciful God, and also looks at how people with disabilities might live a dignified and productive life within an Islamic context.

In his analysis of Islamic Theology, Ghaly pays attention to how theologians, philosophers and Sufis reflected on the purposes behind the existence of this phenomenon, and how to reconcile the existence of disability with specific divine...