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Daily Watch, Printing Limbs
produced by The Economist, in Daily Watch (London, England: The Economist, 2018), 5 mins
3D-printed prosthetic limbs are being tested by Médecins Sans Frontières to help people who have lost limbs in the war in Syria. The new technology is cheaper and faster than conventional methods and could revolutionise treatment of amputees around the world.
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produced by The Economist, in Daily Watch (London, England: The Economist, 2018), 5 mins
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3D-printed prosthetic limbs are being tested by Médecins Sans Frontières to help people who have lost limbs in the war in Syria. The new technology is cheaper and faster than conventional methods and could revolutionise treatment of amputees around the world.
Field of Study
Disability Studies
Content Type
News story
Contributor
The Economist
Date Published / Released
2018
Publisher
The Economist
Series
Daily Watch
Speaker / Narrator
Pierre Moreau
Person Discussed
Pierre Moreau
Topic / Theme
Refugees, Prosthetic limbs
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Copyright © 2020 The Economist
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No Limits
directed by John Zaritsky; produced by Bill Spahic, fl. 2016 and Anne Pick, Real to Reel Productions (London, England: Sideways Film, 2016), 1 hour 19 mins
Shot over 25 years, No Limits is a ‘7 Up’ inspired long form narrative documentary that follows the lives of our disabled protagonists – Thalidomide victims – over the course of decades, and reveals how changes in societies attitudes to disability have affected them. It is also a scathing investigation int...
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directed by John Zaritsky; produced by Bill Spahic, fl. 2016 and Anne Pick, Real to Reel Productions (London, England: Sideways Film, 2016), 1 hour 19 mins
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Shot over 25 years, No Limits is a ‘7 Up’ inspired long form narrative documentary that follows the lives of our disabled protagonists – Thalidomide victims – over the course of decades, and reveals how changes in societies attitudes to disability have affected them. It is also a scathing investigation into the crime of the century, as a new generation of Thalidomide babies are born in Brazil, decades after it was banned across most of th...
Shot over 25 years, No Limits is a ‘7 Up’ inspired long form narrative documentary that follows the lives of our disabled protagonists – Thalidomide victims – over the course of decades, and reveals how changes in societies attitudes to disability have affected them. It is also a scathing investigation into the crime of the century, as a new generation of Thalidomide babies are born in Brazil, decades after it was banned across most of the western world and its harmful effects publicized. Academy Award winning director John Zaritsky joins activists in Germany, Canada and the UK as they plot to reveal a sinister and long hidden complicity by the Thalidomide manufacturer, their Nazi background and a quest for justice for all.
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Field of Study
Disability Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Bill Spahic, fl. 2016, Anne Pick, Real to Reel Productions
Author / Creator
John Zaritsky
Date Published / Released
2016
Publisher
Sideways Film
Topic / Theme
Side effects, Drugs and pharmaceuticals, Human abnormalities, Post-war Era (1945–1960), Late 20th Century (1975–2000)
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Copyright © 2016 Sideways Film
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The Historical Uncanny: Disability, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Holocaust Memory
written by Susanne C. Knittel, fl. 2006 (New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 2015, originally published 2015), 364 page(s)
The Historical Uncanny explores how certain memories become inscribed into the heritage of a country or region while others are suppressed or forgotten. In response to the erasure of historical memories that discomfit a public's self-understanding, this book proposes the historical uncanny as that which resists re...
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written by Susanne C. Knittel, fl. 2006 (New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 2015, originally published 2015), 364 page(s)
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The Historical Uncanny explores how certain memories become inscribed into the heritage of a country or region while others are suppressed or forgotten. In response to the erasure of historical memories that discomfit a public's self-understanding, this book proposes the historical uncanny as that which resists reification precisely because it cannot be assimilated to dominant discourses of commemoration. Focusing on the problems of representatio...
The Historical Uncanny explores how certain memories become inscribed into the heritage of a country or region while others are suppressed or forgotten. In response to the erasure of historical memories that discomfit a public's self-understanding, this book proposes the historical uncanny as that which resists reification precisely because it cannot be assimilated to dominant discourses of commemoration. Focusing on the problems of representation and reception, the book explores memorials for two marginalized aspects of Holocaust: the Nazi euthanasia program directed against the mentally ill and disabled and the Fascist persecution of Slovenes, Croats, and Jews in and around Trieste. Reading these memorials together with literary and artistic texts, Knittel redefines 'sites of memory' as assemblages of cultural artifacts and discourses that accumulate over time; they emerge as a physical and a cultural space that is continually redefined, rewritten, and re-presented. In bringing perspectives from disability studies and postcolonialism to the question of memory, Knittel unsettles our understanding of the Holocaust and its place in the culture of contemporary Europe.
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Field of Study
Disability Studies
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
Susanne C. Knittel, fl. 2006
Date Published / Released
2015
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Topic / Theme
Mental illnesses, Disabled persons, Nazism, Euthanasia, Holocaust, 1939-1945, World War II, 1939-1945, Depression & World War II (1929–1945), Croatians, Slovene, Jews
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Copyright © 2014 by Fordham University Press
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Polio Wars: Sister Kenny and the Golden Age of American Medicine
written by Naomi Rogers, 1958- (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2014, originally published 2014), 489 page(s)
During World War II, polio epidemics in the United States were viewed as the country's 'other war at home': they could be neither predicted nor contained, and paralyzed patients faced disability in a world unfriendly to the disabled. These realities were exacerbated by the medical community's enforced orthodoxy in...
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written by Naomi Rogers, 1958- (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2014, originally published 2014), 489 page(s)
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During World War II, polio epidemics in the United States were viewed as the country's 'other war at home': they could be neither predicted nor contained, and paralyzed patients faced disability in a world unfriendly to the disabled. These realities were exacerbated by the medical community's enforced orthodoxy in treating the disease, treatments that generally consisted of ineffective therapies. Polio Wars is the story of Sister Elizabeth Kenny...
During World War II, polio epidemics in the United States were viewed as the country's 'other war at home': they could be neither predicted nor contained, and paralyzed patients faced disability in a world unfriendly to the disabled. These realities were exacerbated by the medical community's enforced orthodoxy in treating the disease, treatments that generally consisted of ineffective therapies. Polio Wars is the story of Sister Elizabeth Kenny -- 'Sister' being a reference to her status as a senior nurse, not a religious designation -- who arrived in the US from Australia in 1940 espousing an unorthodox approach to the treatment of polio. Kenny approached the disease as a non-neurological affliction, championing such novel therapies as hot packs and muscle exercises in place of splinting, surgery, and immobilization. Her care embodied a different style of clinical practice, one of optimistic, patient-centered treatments that gave hope to desperate patients and families. The Kenny method, initially dismissed by the US medical establishment, gained overwhelming support over the ensuing decade, including the endorsement of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (today's March of Dimes), America's largest disease philanthropy. By 1952, a Gallup Poll identified Sister Kenny as most admired woman in America, and she went on to serve as an expert witness at Congressional hearings on scientific research, a foundation director, and the subject of a Hollywood film. Kenny breached professional and social mores, crafting a public persona that blended Florence Nightingale and Marie Curie. By the 1980s, following the discovery of the Salk and Sabin vaccines and the March of Dimes' withdrawal from polio research, most Americans had forgotten polio, its therapies, and Sister Kenny. In examining this historical arc and the public's process of forgetting, Naomi Rogers presents Kenny as someone worth remembering. Polio Wars recalls both the passion and the practices of clinical care and explores them in their own terms.
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Field of Study
Disability Studies
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
Naomi Rogers, 1958-
Date Published / Released
2014
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Person Discussed
Elizabeth Kenny, 1880-1952
Topic / Theme
Medical treatments and procedures, Polio, Medical innovations, Nurses, World War II, 1939-1945, Late 20th Century (1975–2000), The Sixties (1960–1974), Post-war Era (1945–1960), Depression & World War II (1929–1945), Americans
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Copyright © 2014 Oxford University Press
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Ariel
directed by Laura Bari, fl. 2013; produced by Laura Bari, fl. 2013 and Sarah Spring, fl. 2013, National Film Board of Canada (Montréal, QC: National Film Board of Canada, 2013), 1 hour 35 mins
This feature documentary profiles the psychological and physical journeys of Ariel, an Argentinian man whose legs were shredded by an industrial dough mixer when he was just 33 years old. After the accident, Ariel began to rediscover the meaning of freedom: to rebuild his broken identity, keep his family together...
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directed by Laura Bari, fl. 2013; produced by Laura Bari, fl. 2013 and Sarah Spring, fl. 2013, National Film Board of Canada (Montréal, QC: National Film Board of Canada, 2013), 1 hour 35 mins
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This feature documentary profiles the psychological and physical journeys of Ariel, an Argentinian man whose legs were shredded by an industrial dough mixer when he was just 33 years old. After the accident, Ariel began to rediscover the meaning of freedom: to rebuild his broken identity, keep his family together and design his own artificial legs. He became a living embodiment of the ongoing duel between man and machine. This intimate and metaph...
This feature documentary profiles the psychological and physical journeys of Ariel, an Argentinian man whose legs were shredded by an industrial dough mixer when he was just 33 years old. After the accident, Ariel began to rediscover the meaning of freedom: to rebuild his broken identity, keep his family together and design his own artificial legs. He became a living embodiment of the ongoing duel between man and machine. This intimate and metaphorical portrait juxtaposes Ariel's daily life with dreamlike inner worlds, pushing the boundary between the real and the imaginary. An introspective journey tinged with touches of magic realism, Ariel tells a touching tale in which a man's precarious emotional balance illuminates his unique metamorphosis.
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Field of Study
Disability Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Laura Bari, fl. 2013, Sarah Spring, fl. 2013, National Film Board of Canada
Author / Creator
Laura Bari, fl. 2013
Date Published / Released
2013
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada
Topic / Theme
Accident victims, Physical disabilities, Prosthetic limbs, Early 21st Century United States (2001– )
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2013 by National Film Board of Canada
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8. The Twentieth Century: Military, Biomedical, and Personal Perspectives
written by Sara Newman, fl. 2013; in Writing Disability: A Critical History, Disability in Society (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2013, originally published 2013), 165-186
What accounts for the differing ways that individuals and cultures have tried to make sense of mental and physical disabilities? Can we see a pattern of change over time? Sara Newman examines personal narratives across a broad sweep of history—from ancient Greece to the present day—to reveal the interplay of d...
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written by Sara Newman, fl. 2013; in Writing Disability: A Critical History, Disability in Society (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2013, originally published 2013), 165-186
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What accounts for the differing ways that individuals and cultures have tried to make sense of mental and physical disabilities? Can we see a pattern of change over time? Sara Newman examines personal narratives across a broad sweep of history—from ancient Greece to the present day—to reveal the interplay of dynamics that have shaped both personal and societal conceptions of mental and physical difference.
Field of Study
Disability Studies
Content Type
Chapter
Author / Creator
Sara Newman, fl. 2013
Date Published / Released
2013
Publisher
Lynne Rienner Publishers
Series
Disability in Society
Topic / Theme
Cultural change and history, Intellectual disabilities, Physical disabilities, War, Disabled persons, Vietnam War, 1956-1975, World War II, 1939-1945, World War I, 1914-1918, Late 20th Century (1975–2000), The Sixties (1960–1974), Post-war Era (1945–1960), Depression & World War II (1929–1945), World War I & Jazz Age (1914–1928), The Gilded Age & Progressive Era (1876–1913)
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A Dose for Dominic
directed by Ruth Gregory, fl. 2008; produced by Daniel Berman, fl. 2013 and Luke Ware, fl. 2012, Sproutflix (New York, NY: Sproutflix, 2013), 7 mins
After struggling with many treatment options, a family in Seattle decides to give their five-year-old son, Dominic, medical cannabis to lessen the violent effects brought on by his severe autism.
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directed by Ruth Gregory, fl. 2008; produced by Daniel Berman, fl. 2013 and Luke Ware, fl. 2012, Sproutflix (New York, NY: Sproutflix, 2013), 7 mins
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After struggling with many treatment options, a family in Seattle decides to give their five-year-old son, Dominic, medical cannabis to lessen the violent effects brought on by his severe autism.
Field of Study
Disability Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Daniel Berman, fl. 2013, Luke Ware, fl. 2012, Sproutflix
Author / Creator
Ruth Gregory, fl. 2008
Date Published / Released
2013
Publisher
Sproutflix
Topic / Theme
Parenting, Mental health treatments, Marijuana, Autism spectrum disorder
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Copyright © 2013 by Sproutflix
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No Limits, Season 13, Episode 12, Transport
directed by Riyana Kasmawan, fl. 2012-2016; produced by Elvira Alic, fl. 2003, Disability Media Australia, in No Limits, Season 13, Episode 12 (Melbourne, Victoria: Disability Media Australia, 2013), 27 mins
This 2013 episode of No Limits, directed by Riyana Kasmawan, is about transportation for people with disabilities.
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directed by Riyana Kasmawan, fl. 2012-2016; produced by Elvira Alic, fl. 2003, Disability Media Australia, in No Limits, Season 13, Episode 12 (Melbourne, Victoria: Disability Media Australia, 2013), 27 mins
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This 2013 episode of No Limits, directed by Riyana Kasmawan, is about transportation for people with disabilities.
Field of Study
Disability Studies
Content Type
Panel discussion
Contributor
Elvira Alic, fl. 2003, Disability Media Australia
Author / Creator
Riyana Kasmawan, fl. 2012-2016
Date Published / Released
2013
Publisher
Disability Media Australia
Series
No Limits
Topic / Theme
Transportation, Accessibility, Disabled persons, Early 21st Century United States (2001– )
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2013 by Grit Media. Used with permission from Disability Media Australia.
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16: DISABLED PEOPLE, WORK AND EMPLOYMENT: A global perspective
written by Alan Roulstone, 1962-; in Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies (London, England: Routledge (Publisher), 2012, originally published 2012), 227-240
The Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies takes a multidisciplinary approach to disability and provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of the main issues in the field around the world today. Adopting an international perspective and consisting entirely of newly commissioned chapters arranged thematica...
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written by Alan Roulstone, 1962-; in Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies (London, England: Routledge (Publisher), 2012, originally published 2012), 227-240
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The Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies takes a multidisciplinary approach to disability and provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of the main issues in the field around the world today. Adopting an international perspective and consisting entirely of newly commissioned chapters arranged thematically, it surveys the state of the discipline, examining emerging and cutting edge areas as well as core areas of contention.
Contain...
The Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies takes a multidisciplinary approach to disability and provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of the main issues in the field around the world today. Adopting an international perspective and consisting entirely of newly commissioned chapters arranged thematically, it surveys the state of the discipline, examining emerging and cutting edge areas as well as core areas of contention.
Containing chapters from an international selection of leading scholars, this authoritative handbook is an invaluable reference for all academics, researchers and more advanced students in disability studies and associated disciplines such as sociology, health studies and social work.
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Field of Study
Disability Studies
Content Type
Chapter
Author / Creator
Alan Roulstone, 1962-
Date Published / Released
2012
Publisher
Routledge (Publisher)
Topic / Theme
Social policy, Disabled persons, Disabilities, Employment opportunities, Early 21st Century United States (2001– )
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2012 Nick Watson, Alan Roulstone and Carol Thomas for selection and editorial material; individual chapters, the contributors
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A Disability History of the United States
written by Kim Nielsen, fl. 2005 (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2012, originally published 2012), 241 page(s)
The first book to cover the entirety of disability history, from pre-1492 to the present
Covering the entirety of US history from pre-1492 to the present, A Disability History of the United States is the first book to place the experiences of people with disabilities at the center of the American narrative. Throu...
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written by Kim Nielsen, fl. 2005 (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2012, originally published 2012), 241 page(s)
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The first book to cover the entirety of disability history, from pre-1492 to the present
Covering the entirety of US history from pre-1492 to the present, A Disability History of the United States is the first book to place the experiences of people with disabilities at the center of the American narrative. Throughout the book, historian and disability scholar Kim E. Nielsen deftly illustrates how concepts of disability have deeply shaped the Am...
The first book to cover the entirety of disability history, from pre-1492 to the present
Covering the entirety of US history from pre-1492 to the present, A Disability History of the United States is the first book to place the experiences of people with disabilities at the center of the American narrative. Throughout the book, historian and disability scholar Kim E. Nielsen deftly illustrates how concepts of disability have deeply shaped the American experience-from deciding who was allowed to immigrate and establishing labor laws to justifying slavery and gender discrimination. Included are absorbing-at times horrific-narratives of blinded slaves being thrown overboard and women being involuntarily sterilized, as well as triumphant accounts of disabled miners organizing strikes and disability rights activists picketing Washington. Engrossing and profound, A Disability History of the United States fundamentally reinterprets how we view our nation’s past: from a stifling master narrative to a shared history that encompasses us all.
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Field of Study
Disability Studies
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
Kim Nielsen, fl. 2005
Date Published / Released
2012
Publisher
Beacon Press
Topic / Theme
Cultural change and history, Government policy, Disabilities, Cultural views, Early 21st Century United States (2001– ), World War I & Jazz Age (1914–1928), The Sixties (1960–1974), The Gilded Age & Progressive Era (1876–1913), Revolutionary Era (1765–1789), Reconstruction (1866–1876), Post-war Era (1945–1960), Late 20th Century (1975–2000), Expansion & Sectionalism (1829–1859),...
Cultural change and history, Government policy, Disabilities, Cultural views, Early 21st Century United States (2001– ), World War I & Jazz Age (1914–1928), The Sixties (1960–1974), The Gilded Age & Progressive Era (1876–1913), Revolutionary Era (1765–1789), Reconstruction (1866–1876), Post-war Era (1945–1960), Late 20th Century (1975–2000), Expansion & Sectionalism (1829–1859), Early National Era (1790–1828), Discovery and Exploration (1492–1650), Depression & World War II (1929–1945), Colonial Era (1650–1765), Civil War (1860–1865), Pre-Columbian Americas, to 1492
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