{"product_id":"a-matter-of-dignity-changing-the-world-of-the-disabled-paperback","title":"A Matter of Dignity: Changing the World of the Disabled - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndrew Potok\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003cb\u003eA Matter of Dignity\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs 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?\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom A Matter of Dignity: 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? \u003cbr\u003eAs 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? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"From the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew Potok\u003c\/b\u003e, a painter and a writer, is the author of \u003ci\u003eOrdinary Daylight: Portrait of the Artist Going Blind\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e My Life\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ewith Goya, \u003c\/i\u003ea novel; and \u003ci\u003eA Matter of Dignity: Changing the\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWorld of the Disabled. \u003c\/i\u003eHe lives in Vermont.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.85 x 9.08 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 28, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53131344707695,"sku":"9780553381245","price":28.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0717\/4966\/4879\/files\/YUVzV00yUW1nRnhqbWVBckw0TzdkZz09.webp?v=1779303155","url":"https:\/\/finderbooks.com\/products\/a-matter-of-dignity-changing-the-world-of-the-disabled-paperback","provider":"Finder Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}