Missing pieces a chronicle of living with a disability
The personal odyssey of a man with a disability, this passionate book tries to tell as well as analyze what it is like to have a disability in a world that values vigor and health. Zola writes, "Missing Pieces is an unraveling of a social problem in the manner of Black Like Me. Like its author,...
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press
cop. 2004
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue: overcoming is only the start
- In the beginning there was an idea
- Several hours in a utopia
- So much in so short a time: Thursday, May 25
- The little things that fill a day: Friday, May 26
- The greatest night of the year: Saturday, May 27
- Confrontations and conversations with myself: Sunday, May 28
- On the problem of sharing power and love: Monday, May 29
- It all depends on whether you stand or sit: Tuesday, May 30
- Gone but not forgotten: Wednesday, May 31
- If listening is hard, telling is worse: thoughts on the improbable and problematic world of the physically handicapped and chronically ill
- Four steps on the road to invalidity: the denial of sexuality, anger, vulnerability, and potentiality
- Epilogue: some concluding but hardly final thoughts on integration, personal and social.
