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My Disability Doesn't Define Me

Author : Louis A. Vendetti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781732293205
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book My Disability Doesn't Define Me written by Louis A. Vendetti and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-05 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I'm not handicapped; I'm handi-capable!" - Paul Moylan"I'm not handicapped; I'm handi-capable!" - Paul MoylanWhen another child asked Louis Vendetti about his disability at the age of five, he responded, "My legs have Cerebral Palsy." In this way, he never let his disability define him.In this honest and insightful book, My Disability Doesn't Define Me, Vendetti shares with us his personal journey as a young man with Cerebral Palsy. Through his years in elementary school, secondary school, and then college, Vendetti and his mom quickly learned that advocating for himself required more than just a meeting with the school and some paperwork. It required a strength, perseverance, and resilience that Vendetti had to discover from within. With his characteristic optimism, Vendetti gives us a glimpse at what it's like to be a handi-capable student, courageously making his way through the public school and higher education systems. He proves that living with the challenges of a physical disability while balancing the demands of receiving an education can be hard, but it is possible. Vendetti's lessons and life experiences apply to anyone who has ever had to overcome a challenge or a struggle to find triumph and joy in the end, and will inspire us all to live our fullest and most capable lives.

My Disability Does Not Define Me

Author : Amethyst Bloodstone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book My Disability Does Not Define Me written by Amethyst Bloodstone and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-28 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You shouldn't be afraid or insecure about something that you're not in control of."Hi, my name is Amythest. I like to read, write, and draw. I like to spend time with my amazing family and friends. However, there's something that you may not realise about me when you first meet me. It's something that I find difficult to talk about to people, but I'm starting to realise that I shouldn't find difficult. My name is Amythest and I suffer from a condition called cerebral palsy. Disclaimer: There are mentions of suicide. If you feel this will cause triggers for you then please do not read. Also, all names have been changed for privacy reasons.

Super-Women

Author : Janina Scarlet
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
ISBN 13 : 1684037530
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Super-Women written by Janina Scarlet and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover your own superpowers, and be the hero you were meant to be! Do you suffer from depression, anxiety, or trauma? Have you experienced sexism, marginalization, or even sexual assault? If so, each day can feel like a battle. But you do have the strength within you to rise above life’s challenges. Using a unique blend of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and “superhero therapy,” this one-of-a-kind guide will help you get started. In Super-Women, you’ll find tools to help you explore and process painful experiences, accept difficult thoughts and feelings, and use mindfulness and self-compassion to tap into your own unique superpowers. Alongside seven other heroic women, you’ll learn how to re-write your “origin story” and find compassionate tips and strategies to help you define your own heroic purpose. Joining you will be notable women from all around the world, who’ve submitted their stories and words of encouragement. These women include writers, such as Anne Wheaton, Felicia Day, and Jane Espenson; actors such as Chase Masterson and Ruth Connell; and comedians, activists, and other women who like you understand first-hand how difficult—yet empowering—it can be to be female in a patriarchal society. So, if you’re ready to rise from the ashes and join the leagues of super-women everywhere, read this book. You may discover powers you never even knew you had!

Disabled as ****

Author : Tylia L.Flores
Publisher : Tylia Flores
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disabled as **** written by Tylia L.Flores and published by Tylia Flores. This book was released on 2023-06-23 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her new book disabled as *** disability activist Tylia L. Flores discusses taking pride in having a disability, and how she lives her life to the fullest despite obstacles and challenges that come her way. She talks about her journey and how proud she is to be who she is despite being dis

Made Possible

Author : Saba Salman
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783528273
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (835 download)

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Download or read book Made Possible written by Saba Salman and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A bold wake-up call for those who doubt what people with learning disabilities can do' – Sally Phillips 'A call to arms to confront continued discrimination' – Sir Norman Lamb 'A gem of an anthology... this collection will contribute to our growing understanding, acceptance and celebration of "neurodiversity"' – Simon Baron-Cohen Success is a crucial part of being human. But what if society thought success and aspiration didn’t apply to you? A human rights campaigner. A critically acclaimed actor. A civil rights activist. A singer–songwriter. A Paralympian and elite swimmer. A fine artist. An award-winning filmmaker and drag artist. An elected UK mayor. These professionals have achieved astounding and awe-inspiring success. They've won national accolades in competitive fields such as film, theatre, music, fine art, campaigning and politics... and like 1.5 million people in the UK today, they all also happen to have a learning disability. In Made Possible, these eight remarkable individuals present their authentic experiences – in their own words – and show us what society misses out on by overlooking them, pitying them, patronising them, simply tolerating them and labelling them in terms of their conditions. Edited by social affairs journalist Saba Salman, this collection of groundbreaking and illuminating essays shatters preconceptions and offers a glimpse of the many types of success that can be achieved by people with a learning disability. Crucially, it reveals how people can make invaluable contributions to society when their potential is acknowledged and supported by those around them.

No, It Is Not In My Head

Author : Nicole Hemmenway
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614480052
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book No, It Is Not In My Head written by Nicole Hemmenway and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A story of triumph and courage . . . Nicole Hemmenway demonstrates hope, guts and faith for any chronic pain sufferer or caregiver” (Betsy Turner Nunley, author of Preemie to Woman in Sixty Short Years). At seventeen, Nicole Hemmenway believed her life was just beginning. She was a senior in high school looking forward to college and living on her own. However, all her dreams vanished the moment she became injured. Diagnosed with complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), she soon learned that mainstream medicine viewed her pain and symptoms as being untreatable and incurable. She was living a nightmare. With no use of her right hand and minimal use of her arm, she depended on massive amounts of narcotics to survive each day. Yet even that could not control her agony. The crippling pain was so paralyzing that she faced periods where she was bedridden or wheelchair bound. All she had to hold on to was hope. Hope that her miracle would someday arrive . . . No, It Is Not in My Head is a courageous memoir that presents answers and allows others to believe in the unimaginable. “A must-read for anyone suffering from chronic pain or anyone who knows someone battling it . . . No, It Is Not in My Head is not a cure for pain, but more a cure for hopelessness. . . . Beautifully written, incredibly inspirational and highly recommended!” —Robin Cain, author of The Secret Miss Rabbit Kept “A riveting and uplifting tale, not to be missed.” —Midwest Book Review

Not Without Us: Perspectives on Disability and Inclusion in Singapore

Author : Kuansong Victor Zhuang
Publisher : Ethos Books
ISBN 13 : 9811861137
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (118 download)

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Download or read book Not Without Us: Perspectives on Disability and Inclusion in Singapore written by Kuansong Victor Zhuang and published by Ethos Books. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disability is all around us—among people we meet, the media, sports, our own family and friends. Undeniably, all of us have or will one day come to experience or encounter disability. But how can we reckon with the realities of those who live with disability, or its reality in our own lives? In a city-state slowly moving towards inclusion, how do those meant to be 'included' feel about such efforts? Not Without Us: perspectives on disability and inclusion in Singapore is a groundbreaking collection of essays that takes a creative and critical disability studies approach to centre disability, and rethink the ways in which we research, analyse, think and know about disability in our lives. Across multiple domains and perspectives, the writings in this volume consider what it means to live with disability in a purportedly inclusive and accessible Singapore. “This is a pathbreaking book. Not Without Us weaves together a rich fabric of voices exploring the politics and poetics of disability in Singapore. Moving between lived reality, representation and struggles for social transformation, the collection excavates hidden or forgotten pasts, documents struggles and community formation in the present, and hints at possible futures. The essay collection challenges contemporary discourses of and scholarship on disability in Singapore by centring disabled subjectivities. In the process, it opens up new spaces of empathy, praxis and critique.” —Philip Holden, Independent Scholar and Counsellor "It warms my heart to see another book on disability through the Asian lens. Not just any book or author, but a plethora of contributors who are leaders in the Singaporean disability scene. The tapestry of all the essays inspires the imagination to how we can truly create a place that all of us can call home. Inclusion isn’t just keeping the token seat available, or inviting someone disabled to the party, but truly paving the way forward for all of us to celebrate each other as individuals in all our different shapes, sizes and colours. Thank you Not Without Us for so eloquently celebrating ‘Nothing about us, without us’!" —Cassandra Chiu, Psychotherapist; Social Advocate and Author of A Place For Us "Not Without Us is a richly edited and profoundly written collection of essays about disability in Singapore. It is part of a new and fresh movement to provide local knowledges and global perspectives to a field that has been for too long grounded in the West, particularly the US and the UK. The book will be extremely valuable not only to readers in Singapore but also to those throughout the world who seek a broader perspective on significant issues in disability studies, arts, policy and activism." —Lennard J. Davis, Distinguished Professor, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois in Chicago

More Alike Than Different

Author : David Egan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1633886298
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book More Alike Than Different written by David Egan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this inspiring memoir, David Egan tells his own story, giving us a window into a life spent pushing boundaries. With a family undaunted by his diagnosis of Down syndrome, Egan learned early to speak up for himself. He has since become a powerful advocate for all people with disabilities. His optimistic perspective rejected the limits of stereotypes and the expectations of others. He shares how the support of loving family and friends led him to overcome challenges and blaze new trails. It started with swimming and baseball, when he earned places on his neighborhood teams, competing fiercely and as a fully accepted teammate. He writes firsthand of the empowering feeling of being fully included in elementary school and at work as an adult. Egan has earned positions at prestigious companies and a distinguished fellowship on Capitol Hill. He sits on the boards of influential advocacy organizations. He has addressed audiences worldwide and has played a powerful global advocacy role with Special Olympics. He allowed himself to dream big, and he encourages everyone to do the same. His lesson to all of us is to focus on our shared humanity despite our differences--and our diagnoses. This hopeful memoir will encourage everyone to make the most of their lives.

God's Grace Kept Me

Author : Jennifer Dixon
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book God's Grace Kept Me written by Jennifer Dixon and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2024-08-19 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jennifer Dixon didn’t always recognize her greatness. While growing up in a faith-filled home and raised in church, Jennifer loved God, and knew He loved her and had a purpose for her life. Yet, it wasn’t until she developed a more intimate connection that she discovered the beauty of God’s grace and His reason for placing her on Earth. Dixon, a fierce warrior and entrepreneur, shares insight into her personal experiences with cerebral palsy, disappointment, rejection, and insecurity while demonstrating how God’s grace sustained her during the greatest and darkest times in her life. She also reveals twelve powerful lessons she has learned on her journey to help propel others forward, offer encouragement to achieve dreams, and illustrate that all things are attainable with God by our side. Through her impactful testimony, others will find the courage to: • Triumph over every obstacle; • Embrace God-given gifts; • Pursue goals passionately, confidently, and fearlessly; • Follow the path God has created; • Make a difference; • Evolve into the true self; and • Build and strengthen a relationship with God. God’s Grace Kept Me shares uplifting personal experiences and powerful lessons that will help others renew their strength, find purpose, and transform their lives, even during challenging times.

A Not So Typical Adult

Author : Tylia L. Flores
Publisher : Tylia Flores
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Not So Typical Adult written by Tylia L. Flores and published by Tylia Flores. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Tylia Flores' book, A So Not Typical Adult, the series comes to a close. Now in his mid-20s, Austin explores his career as a disability activist who raises awareness for Cerebral Palsy. As well as being a published author, he has everything he could ever want. His community admires him for navigating adulthood as a single man with Cerebral Palsy, as well as managing relationships with co-workers, friends and family, despite finding his place in the dating world. In spite of the obstacles he faces, he seems to find his way in a whole new world as a person with Cerebral Palsy. Reflecting on everything he has gone through, he realizes everything happened for a reason. He also discovers that his disability is not a limitation but a source of strength. As a result, he learns to appreciate his journey and discovers new ways to fulfill his dreams. The people around him eventually become inspired by him. As Roy T. Bennett once said: “It doesn’t matter how many times you get knocked down. All that matters is you get up one more time than you were knocked down.”

Beautiful People

Author : Melissa Blake
Publisher : Hachette Go
ISBN 13 : 0306830442
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Beautiful People written by Melissa Blake and published by Hachette Go. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well-known disability activist and social media influencer, Melissa Blake, offers a frank, illuminating memoir and a call to action for disabled people and allies. In the summer of 2019, journalist Melissa Blake penned an op-ed for CNN Opinion. A conservative pundit caught wind of it, mentioning Blake’s work in a YouTube video. What happened next is equal parts a searing view into society, how we collectively view and treat disabled people, and the making of an advocate. After a troll said that Blake should be banned from posting pictures of herself, she took to Twitter and defiantly posted three smiling selfies, all taken during a lovely vacation in the Big Apple: I wanted desperately to clap back at these vile trolls in a way that would make a statement, not only about how our society views disabilities, but also about the toxicity of our strict and unrealistic beauty standards. Of course I knew that posting those selfies wasn't going to erase the nasty names I'd been called and, the chances were, they would never even see my tweet, but that didn't matter. I wasn't doing it for them; I was doing it for me and every single disabled person who has been bullied before, online and in real life. When people mock how I look, they're not just insulting me. They're insulting all disabled people. We're constantly told that we're repulsive and ugly and not good enough to be seen. This was me pushing back against that toxic, ableist narrative. For the first time, I felt like I was doing something empowering, taking back my power and changing the story. Her tweet went viral, attracting worldwide media attention and interviews with the BBC, USA Today, the Chicago Tribune, PEOPLE magazine, Good Morning America and E! News. Now, in her manifesto, Beautiful People, Blake shares her truths about disability, writing about (among other things): the language we use to describe disabled people ableism, microaggressions, and their pernicious effects what it's like to live in a society that not only isn't designed for you, but actively operates to render you invisible her struggles with self‑image and self‑acceptance the absence of disabled people in popular culture why disabled people aren't tragic heroes Blake also tells the stories of some of the heroes of the disability rights movement in America, in doing so rescuing their incredible achievements from near total obscurity. Highlighting other disabled activists and influencers, Blake’s work is the calling card of a powerful voice—one that has sparked new, different, better conversations about disability.

The Routledge Handbook of Disability and Sexuality

Author : Russell Shuttleworth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429952309
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Disability and Sexuality written by Russell Shuttleworth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides a much-needed holistic overview of disability and sexuality research and scholarship. With authors from a wide range of disciplines and representing a diversity of nationalities, it provides a multi-perspectival view that fully captures the diversity of issues and outlooks. Organised into six parts, the contributors explore long-standing issues such as the psychological, interpersonal, social, political and cultural barriers to sexual access that disabled people face and their struggle for sexual rights and participation. The volume also engages issues that have been on the periphery of the discourse, such as sexual accommodations and support aimed at facilitating disabled people's sexual well-being; the socio-sexual tensions confronting disabled people with intersecting stigmatised identities such as LGBTBI or asexual; and the sexual concerns of disabled people in the Global South. It interrogates disability and sexuality from diverse perspectives, from more traditional psychological and sociological models, to various subversive and post-theoretical perspectives and queer theory. This handbook examines the cutting-edge, and sometimes ethically contentious, concerns that have been repressed in the field. With current, international and comprehensive content, this book is essential reading for students, academics and researchers in the areas of disability, gender and sexuality, as well as applied disciplines such as healthcare practitioners, counsellors, psychology trainees and social workers.

As seen through the eyes of a disabled woman Cerebral Palsy: A Beauty to be discovered

Author : Tylia Flores
Publisher : Tylia Flores
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book As seen through the eyes of a disabled woman Cerebral Palsy: A Beauty to be discovered written by Tylia Flores and published by Tylia Flores. This book was released on 2022-10-05 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing you the story of Tylia L. Flores, a multiple-time published author and disability activist, Cerebral Palsy a beauty to be discovered tells how she conquered despite the many challenges and obstacles her condition brought to her. With a condition that society does not understand, she brings a whole new perspective to self-love.

Capitalism and Disability

Author : Marta Russell
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608467163
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Capitalism and Disability written by Marta Russell and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spread out over many years and many different publications, the late author and activist Marta Russell wrote a number of groundbreaking and insightful essays on the nature of disability and oppression under capitalism. In this volume, Russell’s various essays are brought together in one place in order to provide a useful and expansive resource to those interested in better understanding the ways in which the modern phenomenon of disability is shaped by capitalist economic and social relations. The essays range in analysis from the theoretical to the topical, including but not limited to: the emergence of disability as a “human category” rooted in the rise of industrial capitalism and the transformation of the conditions of work, family, and society corresponding thereto; a critique of the shortcomings of a purely “civil rights approach” to addressing the persistence of disability oppression in the economic sphere, with a particular focus on the legacy of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990; an examination of the changing position of disabled people within the overall system of capitalist production utilizing the Marxist economic concepts of the reserve army of the unemployed, the labor theory of value, and the exploitation of wage-labor; the effects of neoliberal capitalist policies on the living conditions and social position of disabled people as it pertains to welfare, income assistance, health care, and other social security programs; imperialism and war as a factor in the further oppression and immiseration of disabled people within the United States and globally; and the need to build unity against the divisive tendencies which hide the common economic interest shared between disabled people and the often highly-exploited direct care workers who provide services to the former.

Disability Etiquette Matters

Author : Ellen L. Shackelford & Marguerite Edmo
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1456855611
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (568 download)

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Download or read book Disability Etiquette Matters written by Ellen L. Shackelford & Marguerite Edmo and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to address issues of diversity in all levels. While diversity includes people with disabilities, they are often overlooked and unconscious injustice occurs when one is confronted in communication and inclusion. The proper rules of etiquette in addressing, speaking and interacting with people with disabilities have been put together in a way to omit the fear factor. Disability Etiquette Matters is comprised of stories about actual persons living with disabilities on rules; suggestions and advice on how people with disabilities are the best guide in educating society of matters affecting their daily lives. Also by Ellen L. Shackelford “Where did she go?” – In Reflections on The Spiritual Journey of Caregivers – Editor, Carol Powell

I Have Fibromyalgia / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, but It Doesn't Have Me! a Memoir

Author : Chantal K. Hoey-Sanders
Publisher : BalboaPress
ISBN 13 : 1452501483
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (525 download)

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Download or read book I Have Fibromyalgia / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, but It Doesn't Have Me! a Memoir written by Chantal K. Hoey-Sanders and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly Diagnosed? Long Time Sufferer? You are NOT alone! You CAN change your life and REVERSE this highly frustrating, emotionally confusing, very often unrecognized invisible illness. Too many fibromyalgia/chronic fatigue syndrome patients find themselves suffering in pain, depressed, and alone. Abandoned and misunderstood by their families, the medical community, and society in general, they retreat to their medicine cabinets full of prescription drugs and supplementsmere bandagesthat wont reverse their condition. Chantals story removes the bandages and offers these patients real hope and help. Part memoir/part self-help, Chantal chronicles the steps she took to reclaim her life while following the Guaifenesin Treatment Protocol. Join Chantal in her journey. A must-read, Chantals book will bring you HOPE, INSIGHTFUL tips and POSITIVE results. Th is AMAZING book has changed my Fibromyalgia life. Kris Bruinsma, FMS survivor I am so proud to read this book written by my friend, Chantal. Her articles have graced many publications including my own and I am thrilled that she has taken the time to make her story public. I know firsthand the power of shared experiences on recovery and know her book will make a difference to so many. Claudia Marek, co-author of What Your Doctor May Not Tell You about Fibromyalgia Th is is a story of hope and determination written by an individual who has been a patient in my integrative medical practice for the past eight years. She is an outspoken advocate and our resident expert in the protocol of R. Paul St. Amand, MD. She has graced us with her knowledge and exuberant energy at our clinics monthly fibromyalgia support group meetings. She is the consummate teacher and is always available to help our other fibromyalgia patients working through the subtleties of the Guaifenesin Protocol. A must-read for anyone lost in the abyss of fibromyalgia with seemingly no apparent way out." Thaddeus P. Srutwa, MD, Spring Lake, MI

A Disability History of the United States

Author : Kim E. Nielsen
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807022039
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book A Disability History of the United States written by Kim E. Nielsen and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to cover the entirety of disability history, from pre-1492 to the present Disability is not just the story of someone we love or the story of whom we may become; rather it is undoubtedly the story of our nation. Covering the entirety of US history from pre-1492 to the present, A Disability History of the United States is the first book to place the experiences of people with disabilities at the center of the American narrative. In many ways, it’s a familiar telling. In other ways, however, it is a radical repositioning of US history. By doing so, the book casts new light on familiar stories, such as slavery and immigration, while breaking ground about the ties between nativism and oralism in the late nineteenth century and the role of ableism in the development of democracy. A Disability History of the United States pulls from primary-source documents and social histories to retell American history through the eyes, words, and impressions of the people who lived it. As historian and disability scholar Nielsen argues, to understand disability history isn’t to narrowly focus on a series of individual triumphs but rather to examine mass movements and pivotal daily events through the lens of varied experiences. Throughout the book, Nielsen deftly illustrates how concepts of disability have deeply shaped the American experience—from deciding who was allowed to immigrate to establishing labor laws and justifying slavery and gender discrimination. Included are absorbing—at times horrific—narratives of blinded slaves being thrown overboard and women being involuntarily sterilized, as well as triumphant accounts of disabled miners organizing strikes and disability rights activists picketing Washington. Engrossing and profound, A Disability History of the United States fundamentally reinterprets how we view our nation’s past: from a stifling master narrative to a shared history that encompasses us all.