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Michalko, Rod

 
9781566399340: The Difference That Disability Makes

Synopsis

Rod Michalko asks why disabled people are still feared, still regarded as useless or unfit to live, and not yet welcome in society. Drawing on his own understanding of blindness and narratives by other disabled people, he challenges us to come to grips with social meanings attached to disability.

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À propos de l'auteur

Rod Michalko is Associate Professor of Sociology at St. Francis Xavier University. He is the author of The Mystery of the Eye and the Shadow of Blindness (1998) and The Two- in-One: Walking with Smokie, Walking with Blindness (Temple, 1999).

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