Attachment Parenting: The First Step
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John Bowlby’s articulation of attachment theory in the second half of the 20th century, bolstered by Mary Ainsworth’s…
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Life Is a Blessing
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Life Is a Blessing recounts, largely in vignettes, the life of Dr. Jerome Lejeune as seen through the eyes of his…
Simply Present
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Much of Fr. Henri Nouwen’s writing is characterized by simple language that plumbs deep spiritual depths. This book is…
Foucault’s Disability: From Social Construct to Self-creation
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Michel Foucault’s first major study, History of Madness, documents the unjust social exclusion of the disabled in the…
Meeting the Vulnerable: Encountering Christ
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This book, written by Jean Vanier, the well-known founder of L’Arche and Faith and Light, eloquently meditates on each…
Vulnerability and the Cult of “Normalcy”
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What is health? What does it mean to ‘be’ disabled? What is the relationship between “disability” and perfection;…
What the Body Remembers and Our Culture Forgets
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Our culture has no memory, and indeed at times it seems to actively prevent one from forming in its people. By memory,…
Lessons in the Backyard
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Special Olympics Chair Timothy Shriver's new book Fully Alive: Discovering What Matters Most is part memoir, part…
The Terrible Mystery of Innocent Suffering
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Familiar with human suffering, injustice and war, Fr. Carlo Gnocchi (b. 1902), a diocesan priest from Milan, Italy,…
Being vs. Doing: Personhood and Vulnerability in John Paul II
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In this substantial work, Jeffrey Tranzillo confronts the underlying cultural assumption that the seriously disabled,…