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Disabling Power of Class and Ideology: Analyzing War Injury through the Transnational Disability Theory and Praxis

open access: yesDisability Studies Quarterly, 2019
My doctoral thesis, through a case study of the theocratic-nationalist politics of the Iranian regime and the imperialist politics of the U.S., Russia, and Western Europe in the Middle East, investigated the ways in which gendered-, ideological-, and ...
Sona Kazemi
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The emergence, importance of #DisabilityTooWhite hashtag

open access: yesDisability Studies Quarterly, 2020
In this essay, I look at #DisabilityTooWhite (Thompson, 2016) as an activist call to center the messy intersectionality politics in the disability community, specifically in terms of disability and Whiteness.
Carrie Elizabeth Mulderink
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Truth, Politics and Disability: Graphic Narratives as Illustrated Hope

open access: yesThe Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, 2020
Citizenship in the 21st century may necessitate new and novel means of practice and expression. The graphic novel form can allow for these new means of expression, especially in regards to an important issue in any society: the issue of disability.
Angelo Joseph Letizia
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„Mentální retardace“ a afektivní politiky zřeknutí se [PDF]

open access: yesGender a Výzkum, 2017
This text explores the affective politics of race and disability that underpin the post-socialist developments in the Czech Republic. Firstly, I interrogate “mental retardation”, as a discursive and material practice of differentiating human life ...
Kateřina Kolářová
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Citizenship, Pain, and Disability in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot

open access: yesLiterature, 2022
Citizenship is popularly associated with able-bodiedness, both physically and cognitively. However, disability studies over the last few decades has revealed the extent to which the idea of the nation as composed of able-bodied constituents is little ...
Mitchell Gauvin
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Long‐Term Follow‐Up of Chemotherapy‐Associated Biological Aging in Women With Early Breast Cancer

open access: yesAging and Cancer, EarlyView.
Women threated with adjuvant chemotherapy for early breast cancer have sustained long‐term increase in p16INK4a,, a robust marker of cell senescence, suggesting a chemotherapy‐associated age acceleration. p16INK4a as well as other biomarkers may identify patients at greatest risk for senescence‐related diseases of aging.
Hyman B. Muss   +12 more
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The Sexual Politics of Disability, Twenty Years On

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2018
This paper follows up on qualitative interviews conducted with British disabled people in 1994–6, exploring how people’s lives and relationships have changed over twenty years (n = 8).
Tom Shakespeare, Sarah Richardson
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Structure–Function Decoupling of the Sensorimotor and Default Mode Networks in Black Americans With MS

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background and Objectives Multiple sclerosis (MS) exhibits racially disparate rates of disease progression. Black people with MS (B‐PwMS) experience a more severe disease course than non‐Hispanic White people with MS (NHW‐PwMS). Here we investigated structural and functional connectivity as well as structure–function decoupling in the ...
Emilio Cipriano   +11 more
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Disability, Climate Change, and Environmental Violence: The Politics of Invisibility and the Horizon of Hope

open access: yesDisability Studies Quarterly, 2020
This article brings disability theory and activism into conversation with environmental justice, a conversation that has often been stymied by a fundamental difference in approaching disability.
Julia Watts Belser
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Spatial and Volumetric Characteristics of Glioblastoma: Associations With Clinical Presentation and Survival

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective We aim to comprehensively analyze how regional tumor and edema characteristics are associated with clinical presentations and survival outcomes in a large cohort of glioblastoma patients. Methods Patients with IDH‐wildtype glioblastoma who received brain MRI from 2010 to 2023 were included.
Daniel J. Zhou   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

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