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  • Intellectual Disability and the Death Penalty

    Current Issues and Controversies

    Written by two nationally recognized experts, this book provides a comprehensive review of the legal and clinical aspects of the death penalty as it relates to intellectual disability. First, the facts: people with intellectual disability may falsely confess to a crime because they want to please the authorities, and they are often less able than others to work with lawyers to prepare a defense. ... Read more

    $52.99 USD $32.99 USD

  • International and European Disability Law and Policy

    Text, Cases and Materials

    Series series Law in Context
    In this first textbook on international and European disability law and policy, Broderick and Ferri analyse the interaction between different legal systems and sources. Guided by the global legal standards of the CRPD, students are equipped with the necessary background on disability, and are given a comprehensive overview of the legal and policy frameworks on disability. The narrative maintains ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • International Disability Law

    A Practical Approach to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

    This book provides a concise guide to international disability law. It analyses the case law of the CRPD Committee and other international human rights treaty bodies, and provides commentaries on more than 50 leading cases. The author elaborates on the obligations of States Parties under the CRPD and other international treaties, while also spelling out the rights of persons with disabilities, and ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • International Disability Rights Advocacy

    Languages of Moral Knowledge and Institutional Critique

    Series series Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
    This book provides insight into the globally interlinked disability rights community and its political efforts today. By analysing what disability rights activism contributes to a global power apparatus of disability-related knowledge, it demonstrates how disability advocacy influences the way we categorise, classify, distribute, manipulate, and therefore transform knowledge.By unpacking the ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • International Perspectives on Disability Exceptions in Copyright Law and the Visual Arts

    Feeling Art

    Edited by Jani McCutcheon, Ana Ramalho ...
    This book provides an overview of disability exceptions to copyright infringement and the international and human rights legal framework for disability rights and exceptions. The focus is on those exceptions as they apply to visual art, while the book presents a comprehensive study of copyright’s disability exceptions per se and the international and human rights law framework in which they are ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • It’s Not Because I Want to Die

    by Debbie Purdy ...
    Debbie Purdy doesn't want to die. She has far too much to live for. But when the time comes, and the pain is so unbearable that she cannot go on, she wants her husband to be by her side, holding her hand until the end; and she wants to know that he won't be arrested.Debbie Purdy – the face of Britain's right-to-die campaign – suffers from multiple sclerosis. She was diagnosed in 1995 – barely a ... Read more

    $1.99 USD $0.99 USD

  • Keywords for Disability Studies

    Series Book 7 - Keywords
    Introduces key terms, concepts, debates, and histories for Disability StudiesKeywords for Disability Studies aims to broaden and define the conceptual framework of disability studies for readers and practitioners in the field and beyond. The volume engages some of the most pressing debates of our time, such as prenatal testing, euthanasia, accessibility in public transportation and the workplace, ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • L'examen neuropsychologique dans le cadre de l'expertise médico-légale

    L'évaluation des séquelles cognitives

    Outils d'évaluation des séquelles cognitives subies lors d'un accident.Les personnes ayant subi un traumatisme crânien lors d’un accident de la route ou d’un accident du travail peuvent présenter des difficultés cognitives susceptibles, selon leur sévérité, d’hypothéquer la reprise de leurs activités professionnelles et de perturber significativement différents aspects de leur vie quotidienne. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • L'imputabilità del minorenne

    Dall'autrice di dequo.it - il tuo avvocato online, un lavoro orientato verso un'analisi del tema dell'imputabilità minorile per raggiungere principalmente l'obiettivo di capire cosa la legge intenda quando richiede la capacità di intendere e di volere perché un minorenne possa ritenersi imputabile. Il nostro legislatore ha indicato, infatti, come fondamento dell’imputabilità sia del soggetto ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • La discapacidad argentina

    Derechos y comunicación

    La presente obra tiene como finalidad la divulgación de la discapacidad argentina actualizada describiendo el desarrollo evolutivo desde la construcción biopsicosocial y exponiendo los antecedentes de evolución de alcance legislativo de su acceso a empleo, salud, transporte, accesibilidad, cultura, justicia, comunicación, seguridad social, turismo, educación inclusiva y accesible. Partiendo de un ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Laboratory of Deficiency

    Sterilization and Confinement in California, 1900–1950s

    by Natalie Lira ...
    Series Book 6 - Reproductive Justice: A New Vision for the 21st Century
    Pacific Colony, a Southern California institution established to care for the “feebleminded,” justified the incarceration, sterilization, and forced mutilation of some of the most vulnerable members of society from the 1920s through the 1950s. Institutional records document the convergence of ableism and racism in Pacific Colony. Analyzing a vast archive, Natalie Lira reveals how political ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Land Use Law and Disability

    Planning and Zoning for Accessible Communities

    Series series Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
    In Land Use Law and Disability, Robin Paul Malloy argues that our communities need better planning to be safely and easily navigated by people with mobility impairment and to facilitate intergenerational aging in place. To achieve this, communities will need to think of mobility impairment and inclusive design as land use and planning issues, in addition to understanding them as matters of civil ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Law and Neurodiversity

    Youth with Autism and the Juvenile Justice Systems in Canada and the United States

    As social perceptions of diversity become more nuanced, awareness of the prevalence of autism has grown. But how do we accommodate natural human neurodiversity within the juvenile justice system? And what are the consequences for young people?Law and Neurodiversity offers invaluable guidance on how autism research can inform and improve juvenile justice policies in Canada and the United States. ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Laws We Need To Know

    Understanding Rules and Programs for Persons with Mental Illness

    Those suffering from mental illness and their supporters need to understand and access complex rules and programs. As a knowledgeable attorney cannot be called every time a question arises, this book provides a ready reference tool. The author, Baron Miller, is a practicing attorney in San Francisco. He has been dealing for decades with legal issues affecting persons with mental illness. With ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lectura fácil

    Son cuatro: Nati, Patri, Marga y Àngels. Son parientas, tienen diversos grados de lo que la Administración y la medicina consideran «discapacidad intelectual» y comparten un piso tutelado. Han pasado buena parte de sus vidas en RUDIS y CRUDIS (residencias urbanas y rurales para personas con discapacidad intelectual). Pero ante todo son mujeres con una extraordinaria capacidad para enfrentarse a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Legal Rights, 6th Ed.

    The Guide for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People

    The standard handbook on law affecting deaf and hard of hearing people has been completely rewritten and updated. The sixth edition of Legal Rights: The Guide for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People meticulously describes those statutes that prohibit discrimination against deaf and hard of hearing people, and any others with physical challenges. Written in easy-to-understand language, the new edition ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Legislação sobre Pessoa com Deficiência

    10ª edição

    Series Book 265 - Legislação
    Organizada por Symone Maria Bonfim, a 10ª edição da Legislação sobre Pessoa com Deficiência reúne em um único volume todas as normas acerca de inclusão social e acessibilidade.Atualizada até 27/6/2022, a coletânea inclui a Lei Brasileira de Inclusão da Pessoa com Deficiência (LBI), a Convenção sobre os Direitos das Pessoas com Deficiência (Nova York, 2007), o Tratado de Marraqueche (Marraqueche, ... Read more

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  • Lesionado en el Trabajo - Texas

    Una Guía para Navegar el Sistema de Compensación para Empleados en Texas para Empleados Lesionados, Escrito Por un Empleado Lesionado en el Trabajo

    by Sean Matula ...
    Translated by Ana Maria Neill ...
    ¿Se ha lesionado en el trabajo? ¿Tiene dolor y necesita ayuda? El Sistema de Compensación para Empleados en Texas no le ayudará a menos que usted mismo defienda sus derechos como empleado lesionado. Este libro lo guiará a través de todo el proceso, paso a paso, y le mostrará cómo obtener la atención médica y el pago que se merece. Esta guía está escrita por un empleado lesionado que luchó contra ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Literature and Intellectual Disability in Early Modern England

    Folly, Law and Medicine, 1500-1640

    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    Fools and clowns were widely popular characters employed in early modern drama, prose texts and poems mainly as laughter makers, or also as ludicrous metaphorical embodiments of human failures. Literature and Intellectual Disability in Early Modern England: Folly, Law and Medicine, 1500–1640 pays full attention to the intellectual difference of fools, rather than just their performativity: what ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Lo spazio non è neutro

    by Ilaria Crippi ...
    La disabilità è un tema che non divide. Nessuno direbbe di essere a favore della discriminazione delle persone disabili, generalmente «meritevoli» di aiuto e compassione. Gli spazi ordinari delle nostre città trasmettono, però, un altro messaggio: ibar, gli alberghi, i luoghi di cultura sono stati pensati e realizzati per corpi e menti standard; l'esclusione di tutti gli altri è un fatto normale e ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Looking After Miss Alexander

    Care, Mental Capacity, and the Court of Protection in Mid-Twentieth-Century England

    by Janet Weston ...
    Series Book 7 - States, People, and the History of Social Change
    In July 1939, at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, fifty-nine-year-old Beatrice Alexander was found incapable of managing her own property and affairs. Although Alexander and those living with her insisted that she was perfectly well, the official solicitor took control of her home and money, evicted her “friends,” and hired a live-in companion to watch over her. Alexander remained legally ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Medical Humanities and Disability Studies

    In/Disciplines

    by Stuart Murray ...
    Series series Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities
    Medical humanities and disability studies are disciplines at the cutting edge of innovative critical work in the study of health and disability, but to date there has been no book-length examination of the relationship between the two. Although each has emerged from different heritages, they share many features, from discussing the complexities of embodiment, identifying processes of exclusion and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Mental Capacity Casebook

    Clinical Assessment and Legal Commentary

    The Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA) provides a legal framework for acting on behalf of individuals who lack the capacity to make decisions for themselves. The Mental Capacity Casebook showcases numerous real-life case studies in accordance to this Act. Through the exploration of various mental capacity assessments, this book highlights the psychological needs of the individuals who are supported ... Read more

    $46.99 USD