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  • Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. Vol. 36 No. 1, 2026

    de Donna Trembinski, Donna Trembinski, Donald Wright*, Benjamin Bryce, Isabelle Avakumovic-Pointon*, Eric Story, Jeff Grischow, Magnus Mfoafo-M’Carthy, Augustina Naami, Ninon Dubourg0, Kathleen M. Brian1, Michael Rembis2 ...
    Series Libro 36 - Journal of the Canadian Historical Association
    Ramsay Cook (1931–2016) rewrote Canadian history. Distinctly uncomfortable with nationalism, like his intellectual hero George Orwell, he insisted on pluralism. His best-known contribution to Canadian historical writing was the idea of limited identities, which he refined across the length of his career but never abandoned. He also embraced federalism, bilingualism, multiculturalism, and minority ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Writing Mad Lives in the Age of the Asylum

    de Michael Rembis ...
    The asylum--at once a place of refuge, incarceration, and abuse--touched the lives of many Americans living between 1830 and 1950. What began as a few scattered institutions in the mid-eighteenth century grew to 579 public and private asylums by the 1940s. About one out of every 280 Americans was an inmate in an asylum at an annual cost to taxpayers of approximately $200 million. Using the writing ... Leer más

    $23.79 USD

  • Rethinking Disability and Human Rights

    Participation, Equality and Citizenship

    Edición de Inger Marie Lid, Michael Rembis, Edward Steinfeld ...
    Series series Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
    This book examines the role of disability in the right to political and social participation, an act of citizenship that many disabled people do not enjoy.The disability rights movement does not accept the use of disability to create limits on citizenship, which poses challenges for contemporary societies that will become ever greater as the science and technology of enhancing human abilities ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Disability

    A Reference Handbook

    de Michael Rembis ...
    Series series Contemporary World Issues
    This volume offers a rare mix of interpretive chapters and primary sources that will be of value to anyone interested in learning about important disability-related issues and exploring the perspectives of disabled people.Disability has become a human rights and social justice issue that should concern all Americans. Access to safe, affordable, and effective health care, access to safe and ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • Disabling Domesticity

    Edición de Michael Rembis ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Bringing together a range of authors from the multidisciplinary field of disability studies, this book uses disability and the experiences of disabled people living in the United States and Canada to explore and analyze dynamic sites of human interaction in both historical and contemporary contexts to provide readers with new ways of envisioning home, care, and family. Contributors to Disabling ... Leer más

    $98.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Disability History

    Edición de Michael Rembis, Catherine J. Kudlick, Kim Nielsen ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Disability history exists outside of the institutions, healers, and treatments it often brings to mind. It is a history where the disabled live not just as patients or cure-seekers, but rather as people living differently in the world--and it is also a history that helps define the fundamental concepts of identity, community, citizenship, and normality. The Oxford Handbook of Disability History is ... Leer más

    $154.79 USD

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  • Psychiatry Disrupted

    Theorizing Resistance and Crafting the (R)evolution

    de Bonnie Burstow, Brenda A. LeFrançois, Shaindl Diamond ...
    There is growing international resistance to the oppressiveness of psychiatry. While previous studies have critiqued psychiatry, Psychiatry Disrupted goes beyond theorizing what is wrong with it to theorizing how we might stop it.Introducing readers to the arguments and rationale for opposing psychiatry, the book combines perspectives from anti-psychiatry and critical psychiatry activism, mad ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Mad Among Us

    de Gerald N. Grob ...
    In the first comprehensive one-volume history of the treatment of the mentally ill, the foremost historian in the field compellingly recounts our various attempts to solve this ever-present dilemma from colonial times to the present.Gerald Grob charts the growth of mental hospitals in response to the escalating numbers of the severely and persistently mentally ill and the deterioration of these ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Disability Incarcerated

    Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada

    Edición de L. Ben-Moshe, C. Chapman, A. Carey ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Disability Incarcerated gathers thirteen contributions from an impressive array of fields. Taken together, these essays assert that a complex understanding of disability is crucial to an understanding of incarceration, and that we must expand what has come to be called 'incarceration.' The chapters in this book examine a host of sites, such as prisons, institutions for people with developmental ... Leer más

    $98.99 USD

  • What Is a Canadian?

    Forty-Three Thought-Provoking Responses

    Edición de Irvin Studin ...
    Each of these essays begins with the words “A Canadian is . . .”. Each one is very different, producing a fascinating book for all thinking Canadians.Irvin Studin is an idealistic young Canadian who wanted to do something extraordinary for his country. So he decided to approach leading Canadians — he calls them “sages” — to tell us what they believe defines us. The people who responded eagerly, to ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Lincoln's Melancholy

    How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness

    de Joshua Wolf Shenk ...
    A nuanced psychological portrait of Abraham Lincoln that finds his legendary political strengths rooted in his most personal struggles.Giving shape to the deep depression that pervaded Lincoln's adult life, Joshua Wolf Shenk's Lincoln's Melancholy reveals how this illness influenced both the President's character and his leadership. Mired in personal suffering as a young man, Lincoln forged a hard ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Handbook of Children's Rights

    Global and Multidisciplinary Perspectives

    Edición de Martin D. Ruck, Michele Peterson-Badali, Michael Freeman ...
    While the notion of young people as individuals worthy or capable of having rights is of relatively recent origin, over the past several decades there has been a substantial increase in both social and political commitment to children’s rights as well as a tendency to grant young people some of the rights that were typically accorded only to adults. In addition, there has been a noticeable shift ... Leer más

    $189.99 USD