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Disability Studies
June 17, 2022
Intelligent Love
The Story of Clara Park, Her Autistic Daughter, and the Myth of the Refrigerator Mother
Marga Vicedo
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Galina Limorenko
In the early 1960s, Massachusetts writer and homemaker Clara Park and her husband took their 3-year-old daughter, Jessy, to a specialist after noticing that she avoided connection with others. Following …
Disability Studies
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Disability Studies
June 16, 2022
All Our Families
Disability Lineage and the Future of Kinship
Jennifer Natalya Fink
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Galina Limorenko
Disability is often described as a tragedy, a crisis, or an aberration, though 1 in 5 people worldwide have a disability. Why is this common human experience rendered exceptional? In …
Disability Studies
June 10, 2022
Food Allergy Advocacy
Parenting and the Politics of Care
Danya Glabau
Hosted by
Autumn Wilke
A detailed exploration of parents' fight for a safe environment for their kids, interrogating how race, class, and gender shape health advocacy The success of food allergy activism in highlighting …
Public Policy
April 22, 2022
The Fundamental Institution
Poverty, Social Welfare, and Agriculture in American Poor Farms
Megan Birk
Hosted by
Stephen Pimpare
By the early 1900s, the poor farm had become a ubiquitous part of America's social welfare system. Megan Birk's history of this foundational but forgotten institution focuses on the connection …
Grinnell College: Authors and Artists
April 15, 2022
A Conversation with Autumn Wilke about Disability in Higher Education
Autumn Wilke
Hosted by
Marshall Poe
Today I talked to Autumn Wilke of Grinnell College about her book (co-authored with Nancy J. Evans, Ellen M. Broido, and Kirsten R. Brown) Disability in Higher Education: A Social Justice Approach (Jossey-Bass, 2017) …
Historical Materialism
March 23, 2022
Able to Lead
Disablement, Radicalism, and the Political Life of E. T. Kingsley
Ravi Malhotra and Benjamin Isitt
Hosted by
Stephen Dozeman
People with disabilities have always struggled to make ends meet. Finding a job you can actually do, a housing situation you can afford that meets your needs, and simply …
Law
February 25, 2022
A New Era for Mental Health Law and Policy
Supported Decision-Making and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Piers Gooding
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Jane Richards
This book cuts new ground by applying a human rights lens of analysis to domestic mental health laws. It makes a timely contribution into the discourse regarding mental health, supported …
Law
February 23, 2022
Neurodisability and the Criminal Justice System
Comparative and Therapeutic Responses
Gaye T. Lansdell, Bernadette J. Saunders, and Anna Eriksson
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Jane Richards
Neurodisability and the Criminal Justice System: Comparative and Therapeutic Responses (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021) delves into an under-researched and little understood but extremely pertinent issue in law; the prevalence of neurodisability within …
Medicine
February 9, 2022
Dangerous Medicine
The Story Behind Human Experiments with Hepatitis
Sydney A. Halpern
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Claire Clark
From 1942 through 1972, American biomedical researchers deliberately infected people with hepatitis. Government-sponsored researchers were attempting to discover the basic features of the disease and the viruses causing it, and …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight
December 23, 2021
What to Say Next
Successful Communication in Work, Life, and Love with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Sarah and Larry Nannery
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Dan Hill
Today I talked to Sarah and Larry Nannery about their new book What to Say Next: Successful Communication in Work, Life, and Love with Autism Spectrum Disorder (Tiller Press, 2021). What’s it …
Education
December 2, 2021
Pain and Shock in America
Politics, Advocacy, and the Controversial Treatment of People with Disabilities
Jan Nisbet and Nancy Weiss
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Christina Bosch
Amid a string of fall 2021 news reports about past-due exonerations and (white) self-defense that document the limits of racial justice within the U.S. legal system, Pain and Shock in …
Education
November 22, 2021
Ableism
The Causes and Consequences of Disability Prejudice
Michelle R. Nario-Redmond
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Christina Bosch
Of the dozens of juicy questions for future inquiry that Dr. Michelle Nario-Redmond provides at the end of Ableism: The Causes and Consequences of Disability Prejudice (Published by Wiley in …
Anthropology
November 18, 2021
Worlds of Care
The Emotional Lives of Fathers Caring for Children with Disabilities
Aaron J. Jackson
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Alize Arıcan
Vulnerable narratives of fatherhood are few and far between; rarer still is an ethnography that delves into the practical and emotional realities of intensive caregiving. Grounded in the intimate everyday …
Gender Studies
November 12, 2021
Sexual Citizenship and Disability
Understanding Sexual Support in Policy, Practice and Theory
Julia Bahner
Hosted by
Sohini Chatterjee
What does ‘sexual citizenship’ mean in practice for people with mobility impairments who may need professional support to engage in sexual activity? Sexual Citizenship and Disability: Understanding Sexual Support in …
Gender Studies
October 15, 2021
The Political Economy of Stigma
HIV, Memoir, Medicine, and Crip Positionalities
Allyson Day
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Sohini Chatterjee
In The Political Economy of Stigma: HIV, Memoir, Medicine, and Crip Positionalities (Ohio State UP, 2021), Ally Day offers a compelling critique of neoliberal medical practices in the US by coupling …
Law
September 28, 2021
Disability, Criminal Justice and Law
Reconsidering Court Diversion
Linda Steele
Hosted by
Jane Richards
With a focus on the court diversion of disabled people, Disability, Criminal Justice and Law: Reconsidering Court Diversion (Routledge 2020) undertakes a theoretical and empirical examination of how law is complicit in debilitating …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast
September 9, 2021
Understanding ADHD
Stephen Hinshaw
Hosted by
Howard Burton
Understanding ADHD is based on an in-depth, filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Stephen Hinshaw, Professor of Psychology at UC Berkeley. Stephen Hinshaw is an expert in the fields of …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast
August 24, 2021
Autism
A Genetic Perspective
Jay Gargus
Hosted by
Howard Burton
Autism: A Genetic Perspective is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Jay Gargus, Professor of Physiology, Biophysics and Pediatrics and Director of the Center for Autism …
Education
July 21, 2021
Neurodiversity Studies
A New Critical Paradigm
Anna Stenning, Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist and Nick Chown
Hosted by
Christina Bosch
Since the term was popularized in the 1960s, a “paradigm shift” seems second in difficulty only to the primary task of identifying one to begin with. This is because a …
Gender Studies
June 28, 2021
Sexuality, Disability, and Aging
Queer Temporalities of the Phallus
Jane Gallop
Hosted by
Jana Byars
Drawing on her own experiences with late-onset disability and its impact on her sex life, along with her expertise as a cultural critic, Jane Gallop explores how disability and aging …
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