BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Disability

Current paper · Semantic Scholar

This article presents a meta-critical synthesis of the paradigm shifts in life writing—encompassing both biography and autobiography—as documented in thirteen (13) articles published in the journal Biography between 1972 and 1979. Through thematic analysis assisted by artificial intelligence technology (Google Notebook LM), subsequently validated through manual review, this study identifies four main thematic cluste…

Reference · Wikidata

impairments, activity and participation limitations of a person

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

Disability is the experience of any condition that makes it more difficult for a person to do certain activities or have equitable access within a given society. Disabilities may be cognitive, developmental, intellectual, mental, physical, sensory, or a combination of multiple factors. Disabilities can be present from birth or can be acquired during a person's lifetime. Historically, disabilities have only been reco…

Book · DOAB

Medieval Arab notions of physical difference can feel singularly arresting for modern audiences. Did you know that blue eyes, baldness, bad breath and boils were all considered bodily ‘blights’, as were cross eyes, lameness and deafness? What assumptions about bodies influenced this particular vision of physical difference? How did blighted people view their own bodies? Through close analyses of miniature paintings,…

Full text · Open Library

"September 1955. Six-year-old Mark O'Brien moved his arms and legs for the last time. He came out of a thirty-day coma to find himself enclosed from the neck down in an iron lung, the machine in which he would live for much of the rest of his life." "How I Became a Human Being is Mark O'Brien's account of his struggles to lead an independent life despite a lifelong disability. In 1955, he contracted polio and became…

Image · DPLA

Issue 9.6 of the Review for Religious, 1950.