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Life on wheels : the A to Z guide to living fully with mobility issues / Gary Karp.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Karp, Gary, 1955-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Paraplegia--Popular works.
- Paraplegia.
- People with paraplegia--Care.
- People with paraplegia.
- Wheelchairs.
- Paralysis--Popular works.
- Paralysis.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (499 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Demos Health ; [Berkeley, Calif.] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- There are 1.7 million regular wheelchair users in the United States. Like anyone else, they work, marry, have children, travel, play sports, and are full members of their community. Life on Wheels makes sure they take full advantage of every available opportunity. It is the A-Z guide for all you need to know about every aspect of living with mobility impairment. This unique book offers an initial road map to the lifelong, complex, and fascinating road of the disability experience.
- Contents:
- Rehabilitation
- Healthy disability
- The experience of disability
- Wheelchair selection
- Intimacy, sex, and babies
- Spinal cord research
- Home access
- Getting out there.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-07524-1
- 9786612075247
- 1-935281-10-0
- OCLC:
- 327887620
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