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Interdisciplinary Disability Studies Serie de eBooks

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  • Dis/ability in Media, Law and History

    Intersectional, Embodied AND Socially Constructed?

    Edición de Micky Lee, Frank Rudy Cooper, Patricia Reeve ...
    Series series Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
    This book explores how being "disabled" originates in the physical world, social representations and rules, and historical power relations—the interplay of which render bodies "normal" or not.Do parking signs that represent people in wheelchairs as self-propelling influence how we view dis/ability? How do wheelchair users understand their own bodies and an environment not built for them? By asking ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

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  • The Blank Slate

    The Modern Denial of Human Nature

    de Steven Pinker ...
    **A brilliant inquiry into the origins of human nature from the author of Rationality, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Enlightenment Now."Sweeping, erudite, sharply argued, and fun to read..also highly persuasive." --TimeFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize**Updated with a new afterwordOne of the world's leading experts on language and the mind explores the idea of human nature and its moral, ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • An Analysis of Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray's The Bell Curve

    Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life

    de Christine Ma, Michael Schapira ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Herrnstein & Murray's The Bell Curve is a deeply controversial text that raises serious issues about the stakes involved in reasoning and interpretation.The authors’ central contention is that intelligence is the primary factor determining social outcomes for individuals – and that it is a better predictor of achievement than income, background or socioeconomic status. One of the major issues ... Leer más

    $8.95 USD

  • Gender

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    de Laura Erickson-Schroth, Benjamin Davis ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs to Know
    The term "gender" was first distinguished from "sex" in the 1950s when psychologists began to discuss the idea of "gender roles," behaviors and responsibilities given to people by a society rather than flowing from their biology. Since then, leaders across disciplines have sought to better understand the roles of biology, psychology, and culture on gender. New language has emerged alongside rich ... Leer más

    $12.39 USD

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  • Fantasies of Identification

    Disability, Gender, Race

    de Ellen Samuels ...
    In the mid-nineteenth-century United States, as it became increasingly difficult to distinguish between bodies understood as black, white, or Indian; able-bodied or disabled; and male or female, intense efforts emerged to define these identities as biologically distinct and scientifically verifiable in a literally marked body. Combining literary analysis, legal history, and visual culture, Ellen ... Leer más

    $20.19 USD

  • Thieves of Virtue

    When Bioethics Stole Medicine

    de Tom Koch ...
    Series series Basic Bioethics
    An argument against the “lifeboat ethic” of contemporary bioethics that views medicine as a commodity rather than a tradition of care and caring.Bioethics emerged in the 1960s from a conviction that physicians and researchers needed the guidance of philosophers in handling the issues raised by technological advances in medicine. It blossomed as a response to the perceived doctor-knows-best ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Keywords for Disability Studies

    Edición de Rachel Adams, Benjamin Reiss, David Serlin ...
    Series Libro 7 - Keywords
    Introduces key terms, concepts, debates, and histories for Disability StudiesKeywords for Disability Studies aims to broaden and define the conceptual framework of disability studies for readers and practitioners in the field and beyond. The volume engages some of the most pressing debates of our time, such as prenatal testing, euthanasia, accessibility in public transportation and the workplace, ... Leer más

    $23.79 USD

  • The Biopolitics of Disability

    Neoliberalism, Ablenationalism, and Peripheral Embodiment

    de David T. Mitchell ...
    Series series Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
    In the neoliberal era, when human worth is measured by its relative utility within global consumer culture, selected disabled people have been able to gain entrance into late capitalist culture. The Biopolitics of Disability terms this phenomenon “ablenationalism” and asserts that “inclusion” becomes meaningful only if disability is recognized as providing modes of living that are alternatives to ... Leer más

    $23.79 USD

  • All Our Families

    Disability Lineage and the Future of Kinship

    de Jennifer Natalya Fink ...
    A provocation to reclaim our disability lineage in order to profoundly reimagine the possibilities for our relationship to disability, kinship, and careworkDisability is often described as a tragedy, a crisis, or an aberration, though 1 in 5 people worldwide have a disability. Why is this common human experience rendered exceptional? In All Our Families, disability studies scholar Jennifer Natalya ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Race on the Brain

    What Implicit Bias Gets Wrong About the Struggle for Racial Justice

    de Jonathan Kahn ...
    Of the many obstacles to racial justice in America, none has received more recent attention than the one that lurks in our subconscious. As social movements and policing scandals have shown how far from being “postracial” we are, the concept of implicit bias has taken center stage in the national conversation about race. Millions of Americans have taken online tests purporting to show the deep, ... Leer más

    $32.39 USD

  • Disability and Political Theory

    Edición de Barbara Arneil, Nancy J. Hirschmann ...
    Though disability scholarship has been robust in history, philosophy, English, and sociology for decades, political theory and political science more generally have been slow to catch up. This groundbreaking volume presents the first full-length book on political theory approaches to disability issues. Barbara Arneil and Nancy J. Hirschmann bring together some of the leading scholars in political ... Leer más

    $38.59 USD

  • Medical Anthropology at the Intersections

    Histories, Activisms, and Futures

    Edición de Emily A. Wentzell, Marcia C. Inhorn ...
    In this important collection, prominent scholars who helped to establish medical anthropology as an area of study reflect on the field's past, present, and future. In doing so, they demonstrate that medical anthropology has developed dynamically, through its intersections with activism, with other subfields in anthropology, and with disciplines as varied as public health, the biosciences, and ... Leer más

    $28.79 USD