A hybrid text and photobook by internationally-renowned photographer Lina Scheynius, combining diary extracts with essays and black-and-white photographs to explore the break-up of a relationship, alongside reflections about art, photography, motherhood, belonging and creativity.
An honest, humorous memoir detailing the author’s real-time experiences battling and beating bowel cancer, sharing what actually helped, the mindset shifts, the conversations and the small wins that got him through when things felt heavy.
Julie Casson traces her husband Nigel’s extraordinary journey from diagnosis of motor neurone disease to his successful death at Dignitas in Zurich. A rare and intimate account of one man’s ultimate triumph over suffering.
In conversation with experts including doctors, psychologists and nutritionists, Laura reveals just how detrimental diet culture is to health. Packed with personal stories and practical advice, this book will help you find peace with your body - not be at constant war with it.
Digital News and HIV Criminalization examines the daily practices of journalists to uncover the stigmatizing and sensational way that news media report on the issue of HIV criminalization.
A series of case studies, inspired by the author's real-life experience, exploring ethical and practical dilemmas occurring in health and social care practice with people living with dementia in a variety of settings from care homes to intermediate healthcare settings.
This book explores how being "disabled" originates in the physical world, social representations and rules, and historical power relations—the interplay of which render bodies "normal" or not.
First published in 1982, the purpose of this book was both to review the literature and to report an extensive study of the nature of the psychological problems, the quality of social life and the adequacy of the services available to a group of teenagers with disabilities in the last years at school, with a follow-up study a year later.
This book details how existing public health emergency responses have failed and still fail to address the multi-faceted needs of disabled people. It analyzes complications in the context of epidemic and pandemic disease and emphasize that vulnerabilities imposed upon disabled people track and foster patterns of racial and class domination.
Originally published in 1983, this book elucidates the urgent problems of disadvantaged and delinquency-prone post-adolescents at the time by providing a comprehensive theoretical framework and a pragmatic outlook based on recent rehabilitation experiments.