Disabilities 3 volumes : Insights from across Fields and around the World

1023 Pages·2009·3.31 MB·English

by  Catherine A. Marshall

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Disabilities
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Disabilities
Insights from across Fields
and around the World
Volume 1
The Experience:
Defi nitions, Causes, and Consequences
Edited by
C A. M , E K ,
ATHERINE ARSHALL LIZABETH ENDALL
M E. B , R M S. G
ARTHA ANKS AND EVA ARIAH OVER
Foreword by Thomas Bornemann
Praeger Perspectives
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Disabilities / edited by Catherine A. Marshall … [et al.].
v. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: v 1. The experience : defi nitions, causes, and consequences—v. 2. The context :
environmental, social, and cultural considerations—v. 3. Responses : practice, legal, and
political frameworks.
ISBN 978-0-313-34604-0 ((set) : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0-313-34606-4 ((vol. 1) : alk.
paper)—ISBN 978-0-313-34608-8 ((vol. 2) : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0-313-34610-1
((vol. 3) : alk. paper)
1. People with disabilities. 2. Disabilities. I. Marshall, Catherine A.
HV1568.D54 2009
362.4–dc22 2008045497
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available.
Copyright © 2009 by Catherine A. Marshall, Elizabeth Kendall, Martha E. Banks,
and Reva Mariah S. Gover
All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be
reproduced, by any process or technique, without the
express written consent of the publisher.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2008045497
ISBN: 978-0-313-34604-0 (set)
978-0-313-34606-4 (vol. 1)
978-0-313-34608-8 (vol. 2)
978-0-313-34610-1 (vol. 3)
First published in 2009
Praeger Publishers, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881
An imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.
www.praeger.com
Printed in the United States of America
The paper used in this book complies with the
Permanent Paper Standard issued by the National
Information Standards Organization (Z39.48-1984).
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Contents
Foreword ix
Thomas Bornemann
Preface xiii
Paul Leung
Introduction xix
Chapter 1. How Rich and Fulfi lled My Life Has Been: A Personal
Perspective of Mobility “Impairment” 1
Ela Yazzie-King
Chapter 2. Understandings of the Disability Concept: A Complex
and Diverse Concept 5
Marianne Hedlund
Chapter 3. Disability Harms: Exploring Internalized Ableism 19
Fiona Kumari Campbell
Chapter 4. But Stroke Happens to Older People Doesn’t It?
The Experiences of “Young” People Following Stroke 35
Tara Catalano and Elizabeth Kendall
Chapter 5. “Come Sit with Me; Let’s Yarn Together for a
Little While”: Resilience Factors in Facing
Cardiovascular and Emotional Disabilities 55
Lauraine Barlow
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Chapter 6. Disability in Arab Societies 63
Numan Gharaibeh
Chapter 7. We Can Cry Later: A Story of Surviving Cancer 81
Paige Stager
Chapter 8. Disability as a Human Perception: Personal and
Professional Reactions to American Indian Families’
Narratives about Their Children’s Disabilities 87
R. Cruz Begay, Betty G. Brown, and Roger G. Bounds
Chapter 9. Traumatic Brain Injury and Disability as a
Consequence of Assault: Focus on Intimate
Partner Violence 107
Rosalie J. Ackerman and Martha E. Banks
Chapter 10. “I Thought I Was Going to Live Forever” 123
Reva Mariah S. Gover
Chapter 11. Coping Following Traumatic Brain Injury:
Lessons from Autobiographical Accounts 129
Elizabeth Kendall, Melissa Kendall, and
Heidi Muenchberger
Chapter 12. Functional and Psychosocial Aspects of Late-Onset
Hearing Loss 143
Charlene M. Kampfe
Chapter 13. Disability in Islam: Insights into Theology, Law,
History, and Practice 157
Isra Bhatty, Asad Ali Moten, Mobin Tawakkul,
and Mona Amer
Chapter 14. Living with a Learning Disability and Other
Marginalized Statuses: A Multilevel Analysis 177
Katherine E. McDonald, Christopher B. Keys,
and Fabricio E. Balcazar
Chapter 15. Persons and Nonpersons: Intellectual Disability,
Personhood, and Social Capital among the Mixe
of Southern Mexico 193
George S. Gotto IV
Chapter 16. Sharing My Strengths and Winning against Obesity 211
Michelle Pieper
Chapter 17. The Discursive Construction and Invalidation
of Disability 213
Stephen Lee Hodgkins and Sid Baility
Chapter 18. Shubharthis in India: Destigmatizing
Schizophrenia, a Move toward Inclusion 231
Anuradha Sovani
CONTENTS vii
Chapter 19. Excerpts from Meditations of the Heart on the
Workings (or Not) of the Hand 243
Bernadette Blount Salley
Chapter 20. A Taonga Is a Taonga in Any Language 249
Huhana Hickey
Afterword: Reclaiming Globalization for Disability—Further Insights 257
Index 267
About the Advisory Board Members 273
About the Editors and Contributors 277
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