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The Social Model of Disability in India

Politics of Identity and Power

By: Ranjita Dawn

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The Social Model of Disability in India

Politics of Identity and Power

By: Ranjita Dawn

This book presents various paradigms and debates on the diverse issues concerning disability in India from a sociological perspective. It studies disability in the context of its relationship with concepts such as culture/religion, media, literature, and gender to address the inherent failures in challenging prevalent stereotypical and oppressive ideologies. It traces the theological history of disability and studies the present-day universalized social notions of disablement. The volume challenges the predominant perception of disability being only a medical or biological concern and provides deeper insight into the impact of representation through an analysis of the discourse and criteria for ‘normalcy’ in films from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It analyzes the formation of perspectives through a study of representation of disability in print media, especially children’s literature, comics, and graphic novels. The author also discusses the policies and provisions available in India for students with disabilities, especially women who have to also contend with gender inequality and gender-based discrimination. The book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of disability studies, educational psychology, special education, sociology, gender studies, politics of education, and media ecology. It will also be useful for educationalists, NGOs, special educators, disability specialists, media and communication professionals, and counsellors.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000394220

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The Social Model of Disability in India

Politics of Identity and Power

By: Ranjita Dawn

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Politics of Identity and Power

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Psycho-social Dynamics of Blind Students

By: Ranjita Dawn

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Psycho-social Dynamics of Blind Students

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Study conducted in Delhi, India.

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Concept Publishing Company

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8180697819

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9788180697814

Educational Achievement and Psychosocial Transition in Visually Impaired Adolescents

Studies from India

By: Ranjita Dawn

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Educational Achievement and Psychosocial Transition in Visually Impaired Adolescents

Studies from India

By: Ranjita Dawn

This book provides a fresh approach to studies on adolescents with visual impairment. It threads through the three elements of disability (visual impairment), psychosocial development of adolescents, and their educational achievement. It highlights how these concepts traverse across and cast an irrefutable impact on each other. The author prepares the ground by highlighting the failure of existing theories of disability studies in addressing issues concerning adolescents. She further critiques the psycho-medical approach to disability which undermines or disregards its social construction. The book provides an analysis of numerous issues affecting the psychosocial development of adolescents with visual impairment, which is further validated through narratives in educational settings. It also strongly advocates the need to create awareness about the basic ethics of human relationships and rights, moral consciousness and social and civic responsibilities, which can play a vital role in ensuring healthy psychosocial development of adolescents with visual impairment, and in ensuring inclusion.

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Springer

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9811066442

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9789811066443

Three Daughters, Three Journeys

Quest for Cancer Cure

By: Jill Charles,Indrani Mondal,Ranjita Chattopadhyay,Ananda Chakrabarty

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Three Daughters, Three Journeys

Quest for Cancer Cure

By: Jill Charles,Indrani Mondal,Ranjita Chattopadhyay,Ananda Chakrabarty

Cancer threatens the lives of people around the world. Women, in particular, are at risk of certain cancers with a genetic cause. Certain mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes put mothers and daughters at risk of breast and ovarian cancers. Unlike many cancers that most commonly occur after age 60, these inheritable cancers threaten women’s lives, health and fertility even when they are young, before most would even begin to go for annual mammogram screenings to check for breast cancer. Three Daughters, Three Journeys takes on the biggest health issue of our time from a global perspective with three heroines fighting for their lives against cancer. Marzena, a Polish oncology nurse, has spent her life treating child patients with cancer. Then, she confronts it in her own family and her own body. Kamola, a rural Indian girl, knows she has symptoms of the same disease that took her mother, but feels afraid to discuss it with her father and brothers, knowing her family cannot afford medical treatment. Kamola confides in Dr Rini Mishra, a doctor testing a new treatment called Neelazin, using a bacterial anticancer protein in food, to destroy cancer cells. Selena, a wealthy woman of color in Chicago, finds out about her genetic risks of breast and ovarian cancer. She has a choice of preventative surgery that will save her life but remove any chance of having children. As she meets women who struggle to afford cancer treatment, Selena dedicates her life to providing affordable homes and counseling to families affected by the disease. Although the drug Neelazin is fictional, the possibility of new cancer treatments using bacterial anticancer proteins is being researched now. A problem with the current chemotherapy for cancer treatment is the high toxicity of most of these drugs, as these drugs can enter both normal and cancer cells, though preferably cancer cells, causing the death of normal cells as well that are important in maintaining health. Another problem is that current chemotherapeutic drugs mostly target a single or few key steps that are important for cancer growth and proliferation and inhibit the growth of cancer cells. The cancer cells respond by quickly changing these single targets, thereby becoming resistant to the drugs, as is reflected in stage IV cancer patients. An alternative to chemotherapy would be to exploit the bacterial evolutionary wisdom and use certain proteins that can have preferential entry to cancer cells in order to minimize normal cell toxicity and multiple targets in cancer cells through protein–protein complex formation, thus reducing resistance development in cancer cells. An interesting advantage of protein drugs is to express them as part of food, and some recent research seems to suggest that oral consumption of such foods may allow the therapeutic protein to reach the blood stream to target the cancer. Women with the genetic risk factors could soon have the choice of taking a pill or such anticancer protein-expressing food to treat or prevent cancer, rather than removing the healthy tissue of the breasts and ovaries. Hopefully, they would not have to choose between fertility and survival, as is the implied message in this book, fictional as it is at this time.

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CRC Press

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1351767720

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See You In Ezra Street

By: Ranjita Dutta Roy

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See You In Ezra Street

By: Ranjita Dutta Roy

See You in Ezra Street captures the dramatic uncertainty of a young woman striking up new roots, dealing with her love affair, while absorbing the dramatic lessons from her grandfather’s life in colonial India. Born and raised in Sweden, the introverted life of Tanushree Roy Choudhury, a young music scholar with Indian roots, takes a dramatic turn when she suddenly gets strong hallucinations about her family’s past and starts searching for answers. Answers which her parents had always left unknown. Her research takes her from Berlin to London, where she again meets Joshua Salisbury, a shy and secretive physicist she had not only met once before, but whose eyes she was never able to forget. When by chance the two of them find out that their grandfathers – despite their different religious and cultural backgrounds – had been close friends and classmates in Calcutta in the early 1900s, they continue Tanushree’s search together. The revealing and candid diary entries, photographs and correspondence that Joshua’s family has kept teaches them about differences in values embracing religion, nationality, obedience to elders and romantic rivals in the lives of their grandfathers Isiah Cohen and Debendranath Roy Choudhury. They soon see themselves confronted with not only a hidden and to them unknown love affair, but also with the heavy impacts of war-split India on their close ancestors’ lives – deaths in the family and losing one’s home – startling events which even after seven decades have an impact on the present.

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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1528989015

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9781528989015

Classic Cooking of Orissa

By: Sujata Patnaik,Ranjita Patnaik

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Classic Cooking of Orissa

By: Sujata Patnaik,Ranjita Patnaik

Present-day Orissa is a unique blend of the ancient and the modern. Alluring images of elegant Odissi dancers in all their bejewelled finery, sparkling silver filigree ornaments, suave Sambalpuri sarees, colourful applique wall-hangings, the breathtakingly beautiful beaches and coastline, the flora and fauna, fairs and festivals, and above all, the temple art and architecture, have all contributed to the state's reputation as a tourists' paradise, besides its image as an important pilgrimage centre. Of late, the commercial and industrialization processes initiated in this state have been welcomed by investors from other parts of the country and abroad. The culinary tradition of Orissa, its unique vegetarian and non-vegetarian cuisine, the rice preparations and the sweets, is the subject of this compilation. The authors have painstakingly chronicled the variety that the different regions in the state boast of, with their own distinct tastes. Although the tasty and nutritious Oriya cuisine still retains its traditional flavours, it has also moved with the times. Cross-cultural influences have seeped in, and in the modern Oriya kitchen, the mortar and pestle co-exist with the mixi and the microwave oven. This presentation of the culinary wonders from Orissa is enriched with numerous nuggets encapsulating the state's rich cultural heritage.

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Allied Publishers

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818424584X

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9788184245844

Educational Achievement and Psychosocial Transition in Visually Impaired Adolescents

Studies from India

By: Ranjita Dawn

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Studies from India

By: Ranjita Dawn

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Springer

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Psycho-social Dynamics of Blind Students

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Psycho-social Dynamics of Blind Students

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Study conducted in Delhi, India.

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The Social Model of Disability in India

The Social Model of Disability in India

The Social Model of Disability in India

The Social Model of Disability in India

Psycho-social Dynamics of Blind Students

Psycho-social Dynamics of Blind Students

Educational Achievement and Psychosocial Transition in Visually Impaired Adolescents

Educational Achievement and Psychosocial Transition in Visually Impaired Adolescents

Three Daughters, Three Journeys

Three Daughters, Three Journeys

See You In Ezra Street

See You In Ezra Street

Classic Cooking of Orissa

Classic Cooking of Orissa

Educational Achievement and Psychosocial Transition in Visually Impaired Adolescents

Educational Achievement and Psychosocial Transition in Visually Impaired Adolescents

Psycho-social Dynamics of Blind Students

Psycho-social Dynamics of Blind Students

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