Americans now face a caring deficit: there are simply too many demands on people's time
for us to care adequately for our children, elderly people, and ourselves. At the same time …

This article offers the critical concept misfit in an effort to further think through the lived
identity and experience of disability as it is situated in place and time. The idea of a misfit …

Difficult ethical issues arise for patients and professionals in medical genetics, and often
relate to the patient's family or their social context. Tackling these issues requires sensitivity …

This chapter argues that good care in an institutional context has three central foci: the
purpose of care, recognition of power relations, and the need for pluralistic, particular …

Over the last forty years, the field of disability studies has emerged from the political activism
of disabled people. In this challenging review of the field, leading disability academic and …

In The Brain's Body Victoria Pitts-Taylor brings feminist and critical theory to bear on new
development in neuroscience to demonstrate how power and inequality are materially and …

It is commonly believed that disability disqualifies people from full participation in or
recognition by society. This view is rooted in eugenic logic, which tells us that our world …

This chapter provides a description of psycho-emotional disablism and the different forms it
can take. It explores what the phenomenological concept of the 'dys-appearing'body offers to …

In the first sustained examination of disability through the lens of political theory, The
Capacity Contract shows how the exclusion of disabled people has shaped democratic …

Description: Second Edition.| New York: Routledge, 2020.| Series: Routledge international
handbooks| Revised edition of Routledge handbook of disability studies, 2012.| Includes …