Encyclopedia of Disability

v. 1. A-D --
v. 2. E-I --
v. 3. J-R --
v. 4. S-X --
v. 5. Primary sources. AAATE --
Ableism --
Abu\'L-\'Ala Al-Ma\'Arri (973-1057) --
Abu\'L Aswad Ad-Duwali (603-688) --
Abuse and Hate Crimes --
Accessibility --
Accessibility Codes and Standards --
Accessible Internet --
Accidents --
Accountability --
Activism --
Activities of Daily Living --
Acupuncture --
Acute and Chronic Conditions --
Adapt --
ADLs --
Adoption and Foster Care --
Advertising --
Advocacy --
Advocacy, International --
Advocacy Movements: France --
Advocacy Movements: Germany --
Aesop (Seventh- or sixth-century BCE
 possibly legendary) Greek fabulist --
Aesthetic Surgery --
Aesthetics --
Affirmative Action --
Affirmative Businesses --
Africa --
Africans, Deaf --
Agassiz, (Jean) Louis (Rodolphe) (1807-1873) --
Aging --
Aging, International --
Agoraphobia --
Aids for Activities of Daily Living --
AIDS/HIV --
Air Carrier Access --
Alienation --
Alternative Medicine --
Alzheimer\'s Disease --
American Disabled for Accessible Public Transit --
American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today --
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (United States) --
Amor Hereos (Lovesickness) --
Amputation --
Amputees at Persepolis --
Anthropology --
Antidiscrimination Law: Judicial Interpretations --
Antipsychiatry Movement --
Antisocial Personality Disorder --
Anxiety Disorders --
Aphasia --
Apraxia --
ARATA --
Archaeology --
Aristotle (384-322 BCE) --
Arnold, Ivan Karlovich (1805-1891) --
Art Therapy --
Arthritis and Cartilage Diseases and Injuries --
Asperger Syndrome --
Assistive Technology --
Association for the Advancement of Assistive Technology in Europe (AAATE) --
Asthma --
Asylums --
Attitudes --
Audio Description --
Audism --
Augmentative Communication --
Augustine, Saint (354-430 CE) --
Austin, Mary Hunter (1868-1934) --
Australia --
Australian Rehabilitation Assistive Technology Association (ARATA) --
Autism --
Autobiography --
Aversive Therapies --
Ayres, A. Jean (1920-1988) --
Arnold Gesell (1880-1961) --
Baby Bollinger (1915-1915) --
Bank-Mikkelsen, Niels Erik (1919-1990) --
Barbellion, W.N.P. (1889-1919) --
Barker, Roger Garlock (1903-1990) --
Bashshar Ibn Burd (714/715-783/784) --
Beecher, Henry Knowles (1904-1976) --
Beers, Clifford Whittingham (1876-1943) --
Begging --
Behavior Therapy --
Behavioral Disorders --
Bell, Alexander Graham (1847-1922) --
Bell\'s Palsy --
Biesalski, Konrad (1868-1930) --
Binet, Alfred (1857-1911) --
Bioethics --
Biological Determinism --
Biomechanics --
Bipolar Disorder --
Black Report --
Bladder Control --
Blind, History of The --
Blindness and Visual Impairment --
Bobath, Berta and Karel (BERTA, 1907-1991
 KAREL, 1906-1991) --
Body, Theories of --
Borderline Personality Disorder --
Bourne, Randolph (1886-1918) --
Bourneville, Désiré Magloire (1840-1909) --
Bowel Control --
Bowen, Robert Walter \"Mike\" (1887-1948) --
Braille --
Braille, Louis (1809-1852) --
Brazil --
Breast Cancer --
Bridgman, Laura Dewey (1829-1889) --
Brigham, Amariah (1798-1849) --
Broca, Paul (1824-1880) --
Browning, Charles Albert \"TOD\" (1880-1962) --
Buck (Eagle Detamore), Carrie (1906-1983) --
Buck, Pearl S. (1892-1973) --
Bulwer, John (1606-1656) --
Bunker, Chang and Eng (1811-1874) --
Burnout --
Burns --
Byron, Lord (George Gordon) (1788-1824) --
Campanella, Roy (1921-1993) --
Canada --
Canadian Centre on Disability Studies --
Cancer --
Canguilhem, Georges (1904-1995) --
Capacity Building --
Cardiac Conditions --
Caregiving --
Charity --
Child Abuse --
Contracting Out Services --
Desloges, Pierre (1742-ca. 1790) --
Developing World --
Disability Arts --
Disability Assessment/Evaluation, Europe --
Disability Convention (United Nations) --
Disability Culture --
Disability Pride. Edison, Thomas (1847-1931) --
Education, College and University --
Education, International --
Education, Primary and Secondary --
Empowerment and Emancipation --
End-of-Life Care --
Enns, Henry (1943-2003) --
Environmental Control --
Epidemiology --
Epilepsies, Temporal Lobe --
Epilepsy --
Esquirol, Jean Etienne Dominique (1772-1840) --
Ethics --
Eugenics --
Eugenics: Germany --
Europe --
European Commission Policy --
European Disability Forum --
Euthanasia --
Evaluation in Europe --
Evidence-Based Medicine --
Evolutionary Theory --
Exercise and Physical Activity --
Exhibition --
Experience --
Experience of Disability: Brazil --
Experience of Disability: China --
Experience of Disability: Colombia --
Experience of Disability: Costa Rica --
Experience of Disability: India --
Experience of Disability: Ireland --
Experience of Disability: Japan --
Experience of Disability: The Netherlands --
Experience of Disability: New Zealand --
Experience of Disability: Serbia --
Experience of Disability: Slovak Republic --
Experience of Disability: Sub-Saharan Africa --
Experience of Disability: Taiwan --
Explanatory Legitimacy Theory --
Facilitated Communication --
Fair Housing Act Amendments of 1988 (United States) --
Family --
Family, International --
Family: Law and Policy --
Feminism --
Feral Children --
Fernald, Walter (1859-1924) --
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome --
Fibromyalgia --
Film --
Financial Costs of Disability --
Financial Planning --
Fleury, Victor (1800-1856) --
Folk Belief --
Folly Literature --
Fools --
Foucault, Michel (1926-1984) --
Frailty --
France --
Freak Show --
Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939) --
Fuller, Margaret (1810-1850) --
Functional Assessment --
Functional Measurement --
Gait Analysis --
Galen (129-CA. 199/216) --
Gallaudet University --
Gallaudet, Edward Miner (1837-1917) --
Gallaudet, Thomas Hopkins (1787-1851) --
Galsworthy, John E. (1867-1933) --
Galton, Francis (1822-1911) --
Gastrointestinal Disabilities --
Gender --
Gender, International --
Gene Therapy --
Genetic Counseling --
Genetics --
Gennaro, Aldo (?-1987) --
Genocide --
Georgens, Jan Daniel (1823-1886) --
German Training Schools (Hilfsschulen) --
Germany --
Goddard, Henry Herbert (1866-1957) --
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832) --
Gramsci, Antonio (1891-1937) --
Greek Amputees at Persepolis --
Group Therapy --
Guggenbühl, Johan Jacob (1816-1863) --
Guillain-Barré-Strohl Syndrome --
Guttmann, Ludwig (1899-1980) --
Gutzlaff, Agnes (CA. 1836-1869?) --
Hanawa, Hokiichi (1746-1821) --
Hand and Arm Manipulation --
Handicap International --
Hanselmann, Heinrich (1885-1960) --
Hathaway, Katharine Butler (1890-1942) --
Haüy, Valentin (1745-1822) --
Hay, William (1695-1755) --
Health --
Health Care and Disability --
Health Care Systems --
Health Management Systems --
Hearing Impairment --
Heath, Jeff 1955-2004 --
Hip Fracture --
Hippocrates (428-347 BCE) --
History of Disability: Ancient West --
History of Disability: Early Modern West --
History of Disability: Korea --
History of Disability: Medical Care in Renaissance Europe --
History of Disability: Medieval West --
History of Disability: Pleistocene Period --
HIV/AIDS --
Hoffman, C. Colden (1819-1865) --
Home Modification --
Home Support --
Homer (Eighth Century BC) --
Housing: Law and Policy --
Human Rights Act of 1998 (United Kingdom) --
Humanities --
Humors, Theory of --
Hunt, Paul (1937-1979) --
Hussein, Taha (1889-1973) --
Hydrotherapy --
Hypertension --
Hypochondria --
Hysteria --
Ibn Al-Athir (1149-1210) --
IBN Sirin (654-728) --
IBN Umm Maktum (Sixth Century) --
ICF/ICIDH --
Identity --
IEP --
Immigration: Law and Policy --
Immunologic Diseases --
Impairment --
Inborn Errors of Metabolism --
Inclusion and Exclusion --
Inclusive Education --
Independent Living --
India --
India, Impact of Gender in --
India, Marriage and Disabled Women in --
Individualized Education Program (IEP) --
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act OF 1990 (United States) --
Industrialization --
Infant Stimulation Programs --
Infanticide --
Infectious Diseases --
Infertility --
Information Technology --
Inspiration --
Institutionalization and Segregation --
Insurance --
Interdisciplinary Team --
International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF/ICIDH) --
International Disability Organizations --
Internet --
Intersex --
Invalid Women --
IQ --
Ireland --
Isolation --
Itard, Jean Marc Gaspard (1774-1838). Jackson, William Henry (1889-1931) --
Jahiz, Al- (Abu Othman Amr Bin Bahr) (776-777) --
Japan --
Jernigan, Kenneth (1926-1999) --
Jiri, Jairos (1921-1982) --
Job Analysis and Placement --
Job Retention --
Job Training --
Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784) --
Journalism --
Judaism --
Jukes, The --
Kallikak, Deborah (1889-1978) --
Kanner, Leo (1894-1981) --
Katada Ibn Di\'Ama As-Sadusi (CA. 679/680-735/736) --
Keller, Helen (1880-1968) --
Kenny, Sister Elizabeth (1880-1952) --
Kerlin, Isaac Newton (1834-1893) --
Kessler, Henry Howard (1896-1978) --
Khalil, Al- (CA. 710-787) --
Khujjuttara --
Kirkbride, Thomas S. (1809-1883) --
Knott, Margaret (1918-1978) --
Korea --
Kōtō, Kuzuhara (1813-1882) --
Kraepelin, Emil (1856-1926) --
Kyōgen Comedy --
Labeling --
Lagovsky, Nikolay Mikhailovich (1862-1933) --
Lame, The --
Lange, Dorothea (1895-1965) --
Language of Disability --
L\'Arche --
Laryngectomy --
Latino Health --
Lavater, Johann Kaspar (1741-1801) --
Leadership --
League of the Physically Handicapped --
Learning Disability --
Leonard Cheshire --
Leprosy --
Leupolt, Jane (1812-1894) --
Lewin, Kurt (1890-1947) --
Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph (1742-1799) --
Liliane Foundation --
Literature, Folly --
Lobbying --
Lohse-Wächtler, Elfriede (1899-1940) --
Lü K\'un (1536-1618) --
Luther, Martin (1483-1546) --
Luxemburg, Rosa (1871-1919) --
Mace, Ronald L. (1942-1998) --
Mackenzie, Clutha (1895-1966) --
Madness and Mental Distress --
Mainstreaming --
Managed Care --
Martha\'s Vineyard --
Maternal Imagination --
Maugham, W. Somerset (1874-1965) --
McDonald, Anne (1961- ) --
McMillan, Mary L. (1880-1959) --
Medical Futility --
Medical Models --
Medical Theater --
Medicine --
Meditation --
Melancholy --
Mental Health --
Mental Health: Law and Policy --
Mental Health Parity --
Mental Illness --
Mental Retardation, History of --
Mercy Killing --
Michael IV, Emperor (?-1041) --
Milan Congress on the Deaf --
Mindfulness Meditation --
Mir Nasiruddin Harawi (?-1708) --
Miracles --
Mobility Aids --
Modalities --
Model of Human Occupation --
Models --
Modernity --
Molecular, Cellular, and Tissue Engineering --
Monsters --
Montessori, Maria (1870-1952) --
Moon, William (1818-1894) --
Moscow Theater of Mime and Gesture --
Movement of Disabled People, Germany --
Multiple Sclerosis --
Murphy, Robert Francis (1924-1990) --
Muscular Dystrophy --
Music --
Music and Blindness --
Mutation Theory --
Muwaffak Ad-Din Muzaffar (1149-1226) --
Myasthenia Gravis --
Myofascial Pain --
Myopathy --
Narcissistic Personality Disorder --
National Action Plans in Norway --
National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research (United States) --
National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) (United States) --
National Theatre of the Deaf (United States) --
Nazism --
NCMRR --
Nesbitt, Murrogh de Burgh (1889-1959) --
Netherlands --
Neural Engineering --
Neurasthenia --
Neurological Impairments and Nervous Disorders --
Neuropathy --
Neuropsychiatry --
Neuropsychology --
Neurosis --
New Zealand --
NIDRR --
Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844-1900) --
Nirje, Bengt (1924- ) --
Nonti Natakam (Tamil Cripple Drama) --
Normality --
Normalization --
Norse Sagas --
Norway: National Action Plans --
Novel, The --
Nursing --
Obesity --
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder --
Occupation --
Occupational Therapy --
O\'Connor, Flannery (1925-1964) --
Ontarians with Disabilities act of 2001 (Canada) --
Oppression --
Oralism --
Orthopedics --
Orthotics --
Osteoporosis --
Outcome Measures --
Pain --
Palliative Care --
Panic Disorder --
Paralympics --
Paralysis --
Parental Advocacy --
Parental Narratives --
Parenting --
Parkinson\'s Disease --
Participation --
Passing --
Patient-Professional Relationships --
Patients\' Rights --
Pedagogy and Curriculum Design --
Peer Support --
People First --
Perl, Otto (1882-1951) --
Personal Assistance and Direct Payment --
Personal Care Attendants --
Phantom Limb Pain --
Physical Activity --
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation --
Physical Therapy --
Physician-Assisted Suicide --
Pinel, Philippe (1745-1826) --
Poetry --
Polio --
Political Economy --
Political Participation --
Politics of Disability: International --
Poor Laws (United Kingdom) --
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) --
Possession --
Postcolonialism --
Prematurity --
Prenatal Testing --
Pressure Ulcer/Sore --
Prevention --
Primary and Secondary Education --
Privatization --
Professions --
Progressive Era Women in Special Education --
Prostheses --
Psychiatric Disorders --
Psychiatric Survivors Movement --
Psychiatry --
Psychology --
Psychosis --
Public Stripping --
Public Transportation --
Quality of Life --
Quebec Model of Disability Creation Process --
Queer/Disability Studies --
Race, Disability, and Special Education --
Racial Hygiene (Rassenhygiene) --
Racism --
Ramabai, Pandita (1858-1922) --
Rape --
Rau, Fedor Andreevich (1868-1957) --
Rau, Fedor Fedorovich (1908-1977) --
Rau, Natalia Aleksandrovna (1870-1947) --
Ray, Isaac (1807-1881) --
Recreation --
Refusal of Life-Sustaining Treatment --
Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (United States) --
Rehabilitation Counseling --
Rehabilitation Engineering --
Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA) --
Rehabilitation Engineering Society of Japan (RESJA) --
Rehabilitation Medicine, International --
Rehabilitation Psychology --
Rehabilitation Robots --
Religion --
Repetitive Strain Injuries --
Representations of Disability, History of --
Representations of Disability, Social --
RESJA --
RESNA --
Rett Syndrome --
Right to Work --
Risk and Risk Selection Related to Insurance --
Roarty, John Joseph (1921-1996) --
Roberts, Ed (1939-1995) --
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945) --
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778) --
Rush, Benjamin (1745-1813) --
Rusk, Howard (1901-1989) --
Russell, Harold (1914-2002). Saint Vitus\' Dance --
Sanger, Margaret (1879-1966) --
Saraswati, Virjananda (1779-1868) --
Saunderson, Nicholas (1682-1739) --
Saveljev, Pavel Alekseevich (1890-1975) --
Schizoaffective Disorders --
Schizophrenia --
Scoliosis --
Seating and Positioning --
Séguin, Edouard Onesimus (1812-1880) --
Self-Sufficiency --
Sequoyah (1770?-1843) --
Serbia --
Sex Industry, International --
Sex Therapy --
Sexual Access --
Sexuality --
Sheltered Employment --
Siblings of People with Disabilities --
Sick Role --
Sign Language --
Sign Language Interpretation --
Slovak Republic --
Social Capital --
Social Models --
Social Model: Sweden --
Social Networks --
Social Support --
Socioeconomic Class --
Sociology --
Socrates 469-399 BCE --
Sokolov, Sergey I. (1888-1945) --
South Asian Archetypes --
Special Education --
Special Olympics --
Speech and Language Pathology --
Spinal Cord Injury --
Sports and Disability --
Standard Rules --
Steiff, Margarete (1847-1909) --
Stereotyping --
Sterilization --
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894) --
Stigma --
Stigma, International --
Stress --
Stroke --
Sub-Saharan Africa --
Substance Abuse --
Substitute Decision Making --
Sugiyama, Wa\'Ichi (1610-1694) --
Suicide --
Sullivan, Anne (1866-1936) --
Summary Measures of Population Health --
Supported Employment --
Supported Services --
Sweden --
Switzer, Mary Elizabeth (1900-1971) --
Sydney Paralympics --
Syle, Edward W. (1817-1890) --
Syphilis --
T4 Program --
Taiwan --
Telerehabilitation --
Telethons --
Television --
Temporal Lobe Epilepsies --
Tenbroek, Jacobus (1911-1968) --
Teratology --
Thalab the Grammarian (ca. 845-904) --
Timur the Lame (1336-1405) --
Tokenism --
Training Schools --
Transgression --
Transitions in Education and Employment --
Translating Theory and Research into Practice --
Traumatic Brain Injury --
Travel --
Tredgold, Alfred F. (1870-1952) --
Tropical Diseases --
Tuberculosis --
Tubman, Araminta Ross (Harriet) (1820-1913) --
Union of the Physically Impaired Against Segregation (UPIAS) --
United Nations --
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Disabled Persons --
United Nations Disability Convention --
United Nations Disability Statistics --
United Nations Standard Rules --
United Way of America --
Universal Design --
Universalism --
University and College Education --
UPIAS --
Urbanization --
Vallathol (1878-1958) --
Values --
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) --
Van Landeghem, Hyppolite (fl. 1865) --
Veeck, Bill (1914-1986) --
Vestibular Disorders --
Veterans --
Victor of Aveyron (ca. 1790-1828) --
Vineyard Deafness --
Violence --
Visibility and Invisibility --
Visitability --
Vocational Rehabilitation --
Vocational Rehabilitation: Law and Policy --
Vocational Rehabilitation Act (United States) --
Voting --
Vygotsky, Lev Semyonovich (1896-1934) --
War --
Wheelchair --
Wheelchair, Electric --
Wheelchair, History of --
Wilhelm II, Emperor (1859-1941) --
Willowbrook State School --
Witchcraft --
Women --
Woolf, Virginia (1878-1941) --
Work Incentives --
Workers\' Cooperatives --
Worksite Modification --
World Bank --
World Health Organization --
Wulff, Hilde (1898-1972) --
Xenodisability.