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Moral wrongs, disadvantages, and disability: a critique of critical disability studies [PDF]

Disability and Society, 2014
Critical disability studies (CDS) has emerged as an approach to the study of disability over the last decade or so and has sought to present a challenge to the predominantly materialist line found in the more conventional disability studies approaches ...
Campbell F. K., Carel H., Corker M., Davis L., Eshleman A., Foucault M., Fraser N., Goodley D., Marmot M., McCruer R., Meekosha H., Morris J., Nick Watson, Nussbaum M., Rawls J., Shakespeare T., Shakespeare T., Shildrick M., Simo Vehmas, Stone D., Thomas C., Thomas C., Walby S., Wilkinson R., Wolff J.   +24 more
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Being a Disabled Patient: Negotiating the Social Practices of Hospitals in England

Social Inclusion, 2018
Accessing hospital care and being a patient is a highly individualised process, but it is also dependent on the culture and practices of the hospital and the staff who run it.
Stuart Read, Val Williams, Pauline Heslop, Victoria Mason-Angelow, Caroline Miles   +4 more
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Why Disability Studies Scholars Must Challenge Transmisogyny and Transphobia [PDF]

, 2018
We argue the need for coalition between trans and disability studies and activism, and that Disability Studies gives us the tools for this task. Our argument rests upon six facets.
Liddiard, Kirsty, Slater, Jen
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Early Check: translational science at the intersection of public health and newborn screening

BMC Pediatrics, 2019
Background Newborn screening (NBS) occupies a unique space at the intersection of translational science and public health. As the only truly population-based public health program in the United States, NBS offers the promise of making the successes of ...
Donald B. Bailey, Lisa M. Gehtland, Megan A. Lewis, Holly Peay, Melissa Raspa, Scott M. Shone, Jennifer L. Taylor, Anne C. Wheeler, Michael Cotten, Nancy M. P. King, Cynthia M. Powell, Barbara Biesecker, Christine E. Bishop, Beth Lincoln Boyea, Martin Duparc, Blake A. Harper, Alex R. Kemper, Stacey N. Lee, Rebecca Moultrie, Katherine C. Okoniewski, Ryan S. Paquin, Denise Pettit, Katherine Ackerman Porter, Scott J. Zimmerman   +23 more
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A tale of caution: Navigating special education teacher resistance to well-being professional development

International Journal of Educational Research Open, 2023
Despite increased attention to special education teacher well-being in the past decade, special education teachers continue to leave the field at twice the rate of general education teachers (Boe, 2014; Fox et al., 2020).
Heather L. Walter, Elisabeth L. Kutscher, Harriet B. Fox, Elizabeth D. Tuckwiller, Karly B. Ball   +4 more
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Rights and knowledge-based approach to aging and disability: an overview of issues and approaches

Social Welfare: Interdisciplinary Approach, 2012
This analysis paper is part of a larger project led by the Canadian Centre on Disability Studies (CCDS) and funded by Human Resources and Social Development Canada (HRSDC), called “From Research and Knowledge to Better Practice: Building Strategies and ...
Olga Krassioukova-Enns, Laurie Ringaert
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Disabled people’s experiences of accessing reasonable adjustments in hospitals: a qualitative study

BMC Health Services Research, 2018
Background The UK Equality Act 2010 requires providers of health services to make changes or ‘reasonable adjustments’ to their practices in order to protect disabled people from discrimination or disadvantage when accessing care.
Stuart Read, Pauline Heslop, Sue Turner, Victoria Mason-Angelow, Nadine Tilbury, Caroline Miles, Chris Hatton   +6 more
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Perceived causes and management of epilepsy among rural community dwellers in Ghana: a qualitative synthesis

Frontiers in Neurology, 2023
BackgroundIn Ghana, over 270,000 people live with epilepsy, of which 70% do not receive treatment. Despite the high number of people with the condition, misconceptions exist about its causes and management in African regions.
Daniel Gyaase, Daniel Gyaase, Theresah Ivy Gyaase, Theresah Ivy Gyaase, Rebecca Tawiah, Rebecca Tawiah, Godfred Atta-Osei, Godfred Atta-Osei, Isaac Owusu, Isaac Owusu, Wisdom Kwadwo Mprah, Wisdom Kwadwo Mprah, Yeetey Akpe Enuameh   +12 more
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Paralympic cultures: disability as paradigm [PDF]

, 2013
This is an article about the Paralympic Games of summer 2012 and the experience of watching them. It rehearses the use of disability as political and cultural identity in relation to theatre and performance studies. Disability identity is not an identity
Conroy, Colette
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On making disability in rural places more visible: challenges and opportunities [Introduction to a special issue] [PDF]

, 2017
This essay prefaces a special issue of the Journal of Rural Studies (JRS) concerned with a sub-field of inquiry that might be termed the rural geography of disability, addressing multiple dimensions of disability, physical and mental, associated with ...
Chouinard, Vera, Philo, Chris, Pini, Barbara   +2 more
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