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Disability
A disability is a societal imposition on people who have impairments, making it more difficult for people to do certain activities or interact with the world around them. Due to cognitive, developmental, intellectual, mental, physical, and/or sensory differences, disabled people are “unnecessarily isolated and excluded from full participation in society.” As a result of impairments, people with disabilities can experience disablement from birth, or may be labeled as disabled during their lifetime. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities defines disability as: long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments which in interaction with various barriers may …
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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English
Resistant Practices in Communities of Sound explores the ways that sonic practices (speaking, listening, recording, etc.) serve as forms of aesthetic and political dissent throughout the literary, artistic, and academic …
artist Alice Wong, reading through scholarship on disability studies, sound studies, and critical race theory …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English
An Accidental History of Canada explores accidents, their causes, consequences, and afterlife, in colonial, Indigenous, and urban contexts, from the 1630s to the 1970s. These investigations make plain that accidents …
Manitowabi 11 An Accident’s Afterlife: Childhood, Disability, Maternalism, and Rehabilitation 313 Megan … those themes echo Nancy Forestell’s 2006 work on disability and gender in Canadian mining communities, which … maternalism, and the emerg- ing category of disability. Sasha Mullally returns to a famous episode of … environmental history, the history of childhood, disability history, the history of the body, and the history … aesthetics. She was an ideal public poster child for disability fundraising, precisely because she was white …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English
Friendless or Forsaken? is the story of child emigration agencies operating in North West England from 1860 to 1935. The book traces the imperial relationships, transnational economy, religious networks and …
gration agencies – specifically ragged clothing, disability, and visual cues such as the presence of bars …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English
From 1650 to 1750 the provision of medical care for injured seamen in the Royal Navy underwent a major transformation, shifting from care provided by civilians in private homes to …
Families, and the Construction of Intellectual Disability Madeline C. Burghardt 51 Strange Trips Science … of the county pension scheme, the meaning of disability had expanded during the first half of the sev- … holding up before the public the cause of his disability – loyal service to the Crown.25 Additionally … the future. Not for the last time, war-related disability was both defined and deemed meritorious insofar …
UAP: University of Alberta Press · 6 June 2024 English
Feministing in Political Science examines what is at stake in contesting the boundaries of the contemporary university. This critique of mainstream Canadian political science pushes beyond typical studies of institutions …
location such as race, Indigeneity, gender, and disability are not only variables to be examined or controlled … activism and feminist interventions,” asking how disability and ableism can enable better understandings … Orsini, the extraordinary contribu- tions of disability justice scholarship should be central to the …
CARDUS: Centre for Cultural Renewal · 4 June 2024 English
This framework highlights areas that require redress and proposes constructive policy options to better protect Canadians. These options will be explored in more detail in subsequent policy briefs
examination of the types of palliative care and disability supports received by MAiD applicants and recipients … as culturally-sensitive care or specialized disability care. • Protecting the conscience rights of …
UAP: University of Alberta Press · 3 June 2024 English
Arts graduate education is uniquely positioned to deliver many of the public good needs of contemporary Canada. For the Public Good argues, however, that graduate programs must fundamentally change if …
nationality, language, neurodiversity, ability and disability, generations), disciplinary diversity (engineers …
First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada · 31 May 2024 English
Are you aware whether the definition of 2 Removed Child Class in the claims process is different 3 from the definition of the Removed Child Class in the 4 final …
persons who are 23 neuro-diverse, have FASD, have a disability, or are 24 members of the LGBTQA2S+ communities … persons who are neurodiverse, have FASD, have a disability or are members of the LGBTQAI2S+ communities …
Canadian Council for International Cooperation · 29 May 2024 English
Given the rise of the Indo-Pacific region, and the profound impacts of the region on the lives of all Canadians, the Government of Canada recognized the need for a comprehensive, …
rights, democracy and civic space protection, disability inclusion, sexual and gender-based violence, …
CADTH: Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health · 29 May 2024 English
Health Technology Assessment
active, aggressive disease course leads to rapid disability, and these patients face an unmet need. • The … treatment is to delay and prevent the accumulation of disability by reducing the frequency of relapses. • Currently … a clinically important reduction in relapses, disability, and key MRI lesions. Alemtuzumab may result … DMT disease-modifying therapies EDSS Expanded Disability Status Scale Gd gadolinium HR hazard ratio HRQoL … highly active, aggressive disease with rapid disability.4 Highly active or aggressive MS is identified …