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Reframing Disability and Quality of Life A Global Perspective /

Chronic conditions and physical impairments can take a psychological, social and economic toll, and are assumed to diminish a person<U+0019>s quality of life. But <U+0018>quality of life<U+0019> is an ambiguous phrase. Some use the term as an indicator for successful and high quali...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Warren, Narelle. (Editor), Manderson, Lenore. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Series:Social Indicators Research Series, 52
Subjects:
Social sciences.
Quality of Life.
Quality of Life > Research.
Psychology, clinical.
Social Sciences.
Quality of Life Research.
Health Psychology.
Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-3018-2
Table of Contents:
  • 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<U+0019>s dignity of life: How to evaluate bodies<U+0019> (im)permeability - Rafael Wainer
  • Who, how and what? Quality of life and cancer research - Helle Ploug Hansen and Tine Tjr̜nhj̜-Thomsen
  • Quality of life and end of life decisions after brain injury - Athena Demertzi, Olivia Gosseries, Didier Ledoux, Steven Laureys and Marie-Aurľie 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<U+0019> 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.

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