Reframing Disability and Quality of Life: A Global Perspective - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 9400730195 ISBN 13: 9789400730199

Casa editrice: Springer, 2013

Riassunto

Preface and Acknowledgements.- List of Tables.- List of Figures.- Prologue - Devva Kasnitz.- Reframing disability and quality of life: Contextual nuances - Narelle Warren and Lenore Manderson.- Stroke and aphasia in a South African Township - Carol Legg and Claire Penn.- Disability and wellbeing in Northern Nigeria - Elisha P. Renne.- Children's dignity of life: How to evaluate bodies' (im)permeability - Rafael Wainer.- Who, how and what? Quality of life and cancer research - Helle Ploug Hansen and Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen.- Quality of life and end of life decisions after brain injury - Athena Demertzi, Olivia Gosseries, Didier Ledoux, Steven Laureys and Marie-Aurélie Bruno.- Kidney transplantation in Cyprus: A culture of constructing and reconstructing normality - Costas S. Constantinou.- Spinal cord injury, sport, and the narrative possibilities of posttraumatic growth - Andrew C. Sparkes and Brett Smith.- Narrating a return to work after spinal cord injury - Carolyn Smith-Morris, Gilberto Lopez, Lisa Ottomanelli and Lance Goetz.- Sports, disability and the re-framing of the post-injury soldier - Seth D. Messinger.- Care, dependency and quality of life - Lenore Manderson and Narelle Warren.- Disability and caregivers' inability among immigrant Australians - Victoria Team and Milica Markovic.- The impact of government on quality of life for people with disabilities in the U.S. and Guatemala - Erica Skogebo Edwards.- About the authors.- Index

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Springer
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 9400730195
• ISBN 13: 9789400730199
• Rilegatura: Paperback
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