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Disability 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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„Mentální retardace“ a afektivní politiky zřeknutí se [PDF]
Gender 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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Truth, Politics and Disability: Graphic Narratives as Illustrated Hope
The 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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, 2015 The scholarship of transnational feminisms is organized by arguments about even its most basic terms and ethical orientation. Some scholars write that it is an exciting, positive intervention that replaces a hackneyed and unsustainable notion of ...
Briggs, Laura
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Acoustic Measures Capture Speech Dysfunction in Spinocerebellar Ataxia
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Spinocerebellar ataxias (SCA) are hereditary cerebellar degenerative disorders with a common feature of dysarthria, involving impaired phonatory and articulatory control of speech, thereby affecting social communication. In this study, we investigated whether acoustic measures could objectively measure speech dysfunction and identify
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The Sexual Politics of Disability, Twenty Years On
Scandinavian 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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Citizenship, Pain, and Disability in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot
Literature, 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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“This is the Way I Was”: Urban Ethics, Temporal Logics, and the Politics of Cure [PDF]
, 2018 This article employs Eli Clare\u27s concept of the politics of cure in order to discuss issues of disability, temporality, and ethical relations to rehabilitation, restoration, and cure in the Sex and the (Motor) City: Ecologies of Middlesex special ...
Anderson, David R.
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Tragic but brave or just crips with chips? Songs and their lyrics in the Disability Arts Movement in Britain [PDF]
, 2009 Disability culture is a site within which social and positional identities are struggled for and dominant discourses rejected; in which mainstream representations of people with impairments – as victims of personal tragedy – are held to the light and ...
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Applying an Ethical Lens to the Treatment of People With Multiple Sclerosis
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The practice of neurology requires an understanding of clinical ethics for decision‐making. In multiple sclerosis (MS) care, there are a wide range of ethical considerations that may arise. These involve shared decision‐making around selection of a disease‐modifying therapy (DMT), risks and benefits of well‐studied medications in comparison to
Methma Udawatta, Farrah J. Mateen
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