Disability Studies: Sociology
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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Food Allergy Advocacy Parenting and the Politics of Care Danya Glabau 2022 Spring
- A detailed exploration of parents’ fight for a safe environment for their kids, interrogating how race, class, and gender shape health advocacy
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Practicing Cooperation Mutual Aid beyond Capitalism Andrew Zitcer 2021 Fall
- A powerful new understanding of cooperation as an antidote to alienation and inequality
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Sickening Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States Anne Pollock 2021 Fall
- An event-by-event look at how institutionalized racism harms the health of African Americans in the twenty-first century
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Breathing Race into the Machine The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics Lundy Braun 2021 Spring
- How race became embedded in a medical instrument
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Decarcerating Disability Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition Liat Ben-Moshe 2020 Spring
- This vital addition to carceral, prison, and disability studies draws important new links between deinstitutionalization and decarceration
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Deadly Biocultures The Ethics of Life-Making Nadine Ehlers and Shiloh R. Krupar 2019 Fall
- A trenchant analysis of the dark side of regulatory life-making today
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Silent Cells The Secret Drugging of Captive America Anthony Ryan Hatch 2019 Spring
- A critical investigation into the use of psychotropic drugs to pacify and control inmates and other captives in the vast U.S. prison, military, and welfare systems
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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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Made to Hear Cochlear Implants and Raising Deaf Children Laura Mauldin 2016 Spring
- The social consequences of the medicalization of deafness, as seen in the experiences of parents and professionals working with cochlear implants
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Multiple Autisms Spectrums of Advocacy and Genomic Science Jennifer S. Singh 2016 Spring
- Investigates the ever-expanding meanings of autism to those who study the disorder and to those who live with it
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Health Rights Are Civil Rights Peace and Justice Activism in Los Angeles, 1963–1978 Jenna M. Loyd 2014 Spring
- How demands for dignified medical care and healthy living conditions brought together social justice advocates
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Worlds of Autism Across the Spectrum of Neurological Difference Joyce Davidson and Michael Orsini, Editors 2013 Fall
- Amid controversies about the causes, diagnosis, and treatment of autism, a timely collection of new and critical perspectives on how the disorder is understood and represented
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Body and Soul The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination Alondra Nelson 2013 Fall
- The legacy of the Black Panther Party’s commitment to community health care, a central aspect of its fight for social justice
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Rebirth of the Clinic Places and Agents in Contemporary Health Care Cindy Patton, Editor 2010 Fall
- Analyzing the medical clinic after neoliberalism
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Making Life Work Freedom and Disability in a Community Group Home Jack Levinson 2010 Spring
- Understanding how group home life is not so different from our own
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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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American Eugenics Race, Queer Anatomy, and the Science of Nationalism Nancy Ordover 2003 Spring
- Traces the history of eugenics ideology in the United States and its ongoing presence in contemporary life