Wexler Alice Books
Books di Wexler Alice
Autism in a Decentered World
Wexler Alice
edizioni Psychology Pr collana Psychology Pr (Paperback) , 2018
Autism in a Decentered World
Wexler Alice
edizioni Psychology Pr collana Psychology Pr (Hardcover) , 2016
Art and Disability
Alice J Wexler
edizioni PALGRAVE , 2011
In the past few decades, making art has been used in special education classrooms as a way of offering psychic freedom, if not bodily freedom, by providing a partial antidote to the social problems generated in an impoverished environment. The art that has emerged has redeemed the inevitable isolation and loss and...
The Woman Who Walked into the Sea
Wexler Alice
edizioni Yale Univ Pr collana Yale Univ Pr (Paperback) , 2010
When Phebe Hedges, a woman in East Hampton, New York, walked into the sea in 1806, she made visible the historical experience of a family affected by the dreaded disorder of movement, mind, and mood her neighbors called St.Vitus's dance. Doctors later spoke of Huntington's chorea, and today it is known as Huntington's...
Mapping Fate
Wexler Alice
edizioni Univ of California Pr collana (Paperback) , 1996
In Mapping Fate, Alice Wexler tells the story of a family at risk for a hereditary, incurable, fatal disorder: Huntington's disease, once called Huntington's chorea. That her mother died of the disease, that her own chance of inheriting it was fifty-fifty, that her sister and father directed much of the extraordinary...