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Explores representations of high-functioning adult autism in autobiographical, scientific and fictional texts to demonstrate the value of Cultural Studies towards understanding autism as a subjective condition and social category.

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Explores representations of high-functioning adult autism in autobiographical, scientific and fictional texts to demonstrate the value of Cultural Studies towards understanding autism as a subjective condition and social category.

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This book responds to a previously unmet need: unlocking the mysteries of Social Security disability programs and providing medical and mental health clinicians, as well as advocates, with the information necessary to act in the best interests of their clients.

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This volume offers a comprehensive examination of current theory, research, and practice concerning people with serious mental illness and their families.

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[Mezey] enriches her study with a brief history of federal disability policy and provides a review of contending arguments over public policy and judicial activism. By examining the effects of the courts on social policy, this case study offers new perspectives on the role of the federal courts in the political system.

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A unique manual for managers in health care facilities, this volume contains model policies and procedures found through experience to be useful in helping managers manage their work force while at the same time enhancing the employee relations atmosphere.

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Within the past two decades, dramatic advances in medical technology have led to a complete restructuring of medical care services for pregnant women and their newborns. Perinatologists, epidemiologists, public health administrators, and anyone involved with maternal-child care will find in this book, practical answers to their questions.

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A collection of essays examining the development and commodification of prostheses in Britain and America that occurred during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, due to the shift to standardized industrial manufacturing and associated market growth. -- .

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Changing attitudes and social behavior as well as rapid technological progress are having great impact on women's reproductive health care. Because it deals with the ubiquitous emotional aspects of reproductive health care it will also be of interest to nonspecialists and interested lay readers.

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Points out how the increasing need for scientists in the USA can be lessened by utilizing a long overlooked pool of scientific talent in those persons who are scientifically oriented but who happen to have physical or sensory disabilities.

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In this period of upheaval of our nation's health care system, this timely work serves to increase awareness of and knowledge about the problems of societal living among the chronically disabled elderly.

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The purpose of this tudy was to measure how well diagnostic related groupings (DRGs) perform as length of stay predictors. This study performed a length of stay analysis on the 44,546 patient discharge abstracts from the Presbyterian Hospital in the City of New York in 1980.

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Blows the lid on what has been described by the UN as a 'human catastrophe' the governments war on disabled people

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A wide variety of medical conditions that qualify as disabilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act are explained in accurate, non-medical terminology.

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This extremely valuable collection of fourteen chapters is divided into two sections, with the first section covering research on physical abuse in dating relationships and the second section covering the issue of sexual abuse in dating relationships.

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This book describes the course of social and emotional development in children and adults with mental retardation.

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