A Matter of Dignity: Changing the World of the Disabled (SIGNED)

Potok, Andrew

ISBN 10: 0553802151 / ISBN 13: 9780553802153

Published by Bantam, U.S.A., 2002

About this Item

1st Edition/1st Printing. SIGNED by author on title page (signature only). $24.95 price present on DJ flap. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Seller Inventory # 029407

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Matter of Dignity: Changing the World of the Disabled (SIGNED)
• Publisher: Bantam, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0553802151
• ISBN 13: 9780553802153
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author

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Synopsis

Presents a series of portraits of men and women who have transformed the lives of the disabled--including individuals who train guide dogs, make computers speak, develop innovative new prostheses, and legislate changes to create new laws for the benefit of the disabled.

From the Inside Flap

From A Matter of Dignity:

I realized that I needed to learn about the legislative and legal aspects of disability as much as I did about our feelings regarding wholeness, beauty and ugliness, about the state called normalcy, about liberating technologies and therapies, about the role of the disabled in history and literature.

And what could better inform and enlighten me than contact with people who help create access, who elicit change via care, support, teaching, and study as their life s work?

As it turned out, I have learned from them that, in spite of the American addiction to youthfulness, normalcy, virility, activity, and physical beauty, diversity in all its forms provides not only fascination but strength. Diversity tends toward higher forms, uniformity toward dullness and extinction. What could make more sense than to value all that is diverse, unexpected, and exuberantly impure?