Disability Studies: Illness
Virtual presence for attendees and those interested in the annual meeting of the Society for Disability Studies. Books on sale, University of Minnesota Press information, and more.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS: 40% OFF BOOKS
All books below are 40% off using code MN89030. Code expires June 1, 2022.
BROWSE BOOKS BY CATEGORY:
SOCIAL JUSTICE // RACE // GENDER AND GLBT STUDIES // EDUCATION
SOCIOLOGY // CRIMINAL JUSTICE // THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY // LAW
MEMOIR // ILLNESS // DEAF STUDIES // PSYCHOLOGY // PSYCHIATRY
ART // SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY // DESIGN // DIGITAL HUMANITIES
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Mediating Alzheimer’s Cognition and Personhood Scott Selberg 2022 Spring
- An exploration of the representational culture of Alzheimer’s disease and how media technologies shape our ideas of cognition and aging
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Therapy Tech The Digital Transformation of Mental Healthcare Emma Bedor Hiland 2021 Fall
- A pointed look at the state of tech-based mental healthcare and what we must do to change it
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Fix What You Can Schizophrenia and a Lawmaker's Fight for Her Son Mindy Greiling 2020 Fall
- One mother’s fight to support her son and change a broken system
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Breathtaking Asthma Care in a Time of Climate Change Alison Kenner 2018 Fall
- People around the world are struggling to breathe. How do we care for asthma across environments that are increasingly unbreathable?
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Indirect Action Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS, and the Course of Health Activism Lisa Diedrich 2016 Fall
- The interconnectedness of illness, thought, and activism prior to the arrival of AIDS in the United States
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Testing Fate Tay-Sachs Disease and the Right to Be Responsible Shelley Z. Reuter 2016 Fall
- An unprecedented look at the racialized history of a “Jewish” disease
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Imagining Illness Public Health and Visual Culture David Serlin, Editor 2010 Fall
- Analyzing the visual culture of public health from the nineteenth century to the present
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The Biopolitics of Breast Cancer Changing Cultures of Disease and Activism Maren Klawiter 2008 Spring
- A richly textured analysis of the body politics of breast cancer activism
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Medicine by Design The Architect and the Modern Hospital, 1893–1943 Annmarie Adams 2007 Fall
- Reveals the impact of hospital design on early twentieth-century medicine
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Treatments Language, Politics, and the Culture of Illness Lisa Diedrich 2007 Spring
- Delving into the controversial relationship between illness and art, philosophy and politics
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City of Plagues Disease, Poverty, and Deviance in San Francisco Susan Craddock 2004 Spring
- An eye-opening discussion of the ways disease shapes urban society