Disability Care

In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for all. Care Work is a mapping of access as radical love, a celebration of the work that sick and disabled queer/people of color are doing to find each other and to build power and community.

The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revolutionary collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience, and intimacy in all its myriad forms. What is intimacy? More than sex, more than romantic...

The healthcare system wasn't designed to serve you. It was designed to extract from you—your data, your time, your money, and your trust. Every six-minute appointment, every denied claim, every prescription you can't afford is part of what this book calls the Extraction Paradigm: a system that processes patients instead of caring for them. The Sovereign Patient exposes how this happened and what artificial intelligence now makes possible for the people the system has failed.

Tai Chi for Healing and Recovery: Simple, Adapted Exercises and Visualization for Patients in Bed, Chair, or Rehab, at Home or in Care Facilities Discover a Gentle Path to Healing, Strength, and Peace Are you recovering from illness, injury, or surgery — or caring for someone who is? Tai Chi for Healing and Recovery offers a compassionate, practical guide to gentle movement designed for patients with limited mobility. Whether in a hospital bed, a recliner, a wheelchair, or at home, these adapted Tai Chi routines bring comfort, confidence, and calm to every stage of recovery. Inside ...

In this “urgent and necessary book” (Rebecca Traister, New York Times bestselling author), journalist Elissa Strauss explores the powerful role caring for others plays in our individual and communal lives, weaving together research and stories from parents and caregivers with a feminist bent...

Discover the tools and confidence to advocate for yourself in every area of life—education, employment, healthcare, and community. This supportive guide offers clear steps to build your self-advocacy skills, ensuring your voice is heard, respected, and central to your journey toward independence and full participation.

A new rip-roaring essay collection from the smart, edgy, hilarious, unabashedly raunchy, and bestselling Samantha Irby. Irby is forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics have promised her. She has left her job as a receptionist at a...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A GLAMOUR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A hilarious new essay collection from Samantha Irby "engages readers with her characteristic combination of laugh-out-loud moments, heartfelt passages and plenty of awkward experiences.... Quietly Hostile will delight established...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * AMAZON EDITOR’S PICK and BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * INDIE BESTSELLER * A SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE'S BEST SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR * THE WASHINGTON POST'S BEST NONFICTION OF THE YEAR PICK * A NEW SCIENTIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR *THE PERFECT GIFT FOR...

Rehabilitation counseling is a dynamic and client-centered profession focused on helping individuals with disabilities achieve meaningful employment, independent living, emotional wellbeing, and full participation in their communities. This comprehensive guide explores the full scope of rehabilitation counseling practice, including vocational development, medical and psychosocial considerations, assistive technology, crisis intervention, family systems, and lifelong disability adjustment. Gain a deep understanding of how disability interacts with employment, education, healthcare, ...

Just Care is Akemi Nishida’s thoughtful examination of care injustice and social justice enabled through care. The current neoliberal political economy has turned care into a business opportunity for the healthcare industrial complex and a mechanism of social oppression and control. Nishida analyzes the challenges people negotiate whether they are situated as caregivers, receivers, or both. Also illuminated is how people with disabilities come together to assemble community care collectives and bed activism (resistance and visions emerging from the space of bed) to reimagine care as a key element for social change.

Now, as more families like Michael's are affected by a growing number of disorders and difficulties ranging from autism to food allergies, the need for programs and paradigm shifts is greater than ever. Beates thus seeks to motivate churches to pursue ministry to children and adults with developmental disabilities. He works through key Bible passages on brokenness and disability to develop helpful principles for believers and churches, teaching them first to embrace their own brokenness and then to embrace those who are more physically and visibly broken.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER This essay collection from the “bitches gotta eat” blogger, writer on Hulu’s Shrill and HBO's And Just Like That, and “one of our country’s most fierce and foulmouthed authors” (Amber Tamblyn, Vulture) is sure to make you alternately cackle with glee and...

Anyone who has been wounded will resonate deeply with Wound Care. Through mostly short, flash length essays that are part poetry, part narrative, Rich Furman brings the reader on an emotional journey traveling the full array of emotions: sadness, joy, grief, contentment, melancholy, and glee. A book that pushes the edge of literary boundaries, Wound Care explores the nature of human woundedness. Divorce, disability, and the complexities of being a father are all torn apart, unpacked, and reconfigured. Honest, vulnerable, and urgent, this is a collection of essays that are poetic medicine ...

The Essential EDS Family Handbook—Now Updated with Groundbreaking 2024–2025 Research If you or someone you love is living with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS), this fully updated 2025 edition is the most comprehensive and accessible guide available today. Backed by the latest clinical discoveries, this book transforms complex medical research into clear, actionable advice for families navigating EDS together. What’s New in the 2025 Edition: First-ever blood test for EDS: 52 kDa fibronectin fragment biomarker New prevalence data: 1 in 500 people may be affected, not 1 in 5,000 Updated ...

Unlock the door to essential benefits and resources with "Understanding the Basics," your comprehensive guide to navigating the VA benefits landscape. Whether you're a veteran, active service member, or a family member, this eBook is a treasure trove of information tailored to help you make the most of what's available. Begin your journey in Chapter 1 with an introduction to the history and purpose of VA benefits, learning who qualifies and how to apply. Grasp the essentials of health care benefits in Chapter 2, as you uncover the enrollment process and access medical services with ease. ...

Agent Orange Disability Benefits: A Veteran’s Guide to Claims, Compensation, and Care is a comprehensive legal-medical reference designed to help veterans, survivors, and their families navigate the complex Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) system. For decades, veterans exposed to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War and in other service locations have faced devastating health consequences, including cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and neurological disorders. While the VA recognizes many of these conditions under presumptive service connection laws, the claims and appeals process ...

Having a disabled child is never easy in life. There are so many things to take into consideration when planning your day. At times, it can get quite frustrating dealing with the issues of having a disabled child. Dawn Lucan will share her life strategies and community resources for school issues, common therapies, healthy eating, marriage advice, siblings, friendships, activities, travel, and more.

From Stonewall Award–winning author Abdi Nazemian (Only This Beautiful Moment) comes the epic queer love story of a lifetime. Perfect for fans of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and The Picture of Dorian Gray. Shahriar believes he was born in the wrong time. All he’s ever wanted is to love...

Brought to you by Penguin. From the remarkable man whose life inspired the heartstopping film, ‘I Swear’, a book that offers extraordinary insight into what it’s like to live with a severe form of Tourette’s Syndrome: a fascinating, complex condition that’s more common than most of us...