Reframing Disability and Quality of Life A Global Perspective /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Warren, Narelle (Editor), Manderson, Lenore (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Social Indicators Research Series, 52
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Medical research.; Quality of life.; Health psychology.; Social Sciences.; Quality of Life Research.; Health Psychology.

Chronic conditions and physical impairments can take a psychological, social and economic toll, and are assumed to diminish a person’s quality of life. But ‘quality of life’ is an ambiguous phrase. Some use the term as an indicator for successful and high quality health services, including good acce...

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’s dignity of life: How to evaluate bodies’ (im)permeability - Rafael Wainer
• Who, how and what? Quality of life and cancer research - Helle Ploug Hansen and Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen
• Quality of life and end of life decisions after brain injury - Athena Demertzi, Olivia Gosseries, Didier Ledoux, Steven Laureys and Marie-Aurélie 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’ 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.