Nora Ellen Groce
Biographic Data
| ID | 78612 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nora Ellen Groce |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nora Ellen |
| FAMILY NAME | Groce |
| SIGNATURE | GROCE N E |
| AFFILIATIONS | nora ellen groce is Director of the International Disability Research Programme at University College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Folklore and Disability: An Important-and Too Often Overlooked-Factor in Global Health and International Development Efforts
In this paper, I argue that the field of folklore and folklorists can-and should-make more of a contribution to global health and international development efforts and should be more involved in conversations about social justice and human rights. Drawing on my invited comments at the webinar sponsored by the Fellows of the American Folklore Society entitled "Interrogating the Normal: Folkloristic Engagements with Disability," held on March 25, 2…
US Disparities in Life Expectancy: Not One “Population Health Iceberg” But Two
Long-lasting consequences of war on disability
This article investigates the impact of exposure to United States air force bombing during 1965-75 on the disability status of individuals in Vietnam in 2009. Using a combination of national census and US military data and an instrumental variable strategy which exploits the distance to the former North-South border as a quasi-experiment, the article finds a positive and significant impact of bombing exposure on district level disability rates 40…
Accessible Connecticut: A Guide to Recreation for Children with Disabilities and Their Families
This user-friendly guide helps parents of children with disabilities plan family outings in Connecticut that are stimulating and fun. Intended for youngsters who use wheelchairs or who have visual, hearing, or mental impairments, it presents places throughout the state that are easily accessible and reasonably priced and that require little or no prior planning. The entries are arranged by type of activity. They include places to see animals (zoo…
Inheritance, poverty, and disability
Inheritance is a significant means of transferring wealth from one generation to the next, and therefore increasingly attracts attention from researchers and policy-makers working on intergenerational and multidimensional poverty.However, until now disabled persons have been overlooked in these discussions.This oversight is particularly unfortunate because, as a group, the estimated one billion people with disabilities (some 15% of the world's po…
Surviving polio in a post-polio world
Excitement mounts as the global health and international development communities anticipate a polio-free world. Despite substantial political and logistical hurdles, only 223 cases of wild poliovirus in three countries were reported in 2012. Down 99% from the estimated 350,000 annual cases in 125 countries in 1988-this decline signals the imminent global eradication of polio. However, elimination of new polio cases should not also signal an end t…
HIV issues and people with disabilities: A review and agenda for research
Illiteracy among adults with disabilities in the developing world: A review of the literature and a call for action
In the early 1990s, UNESCO estimated that perhaps 97% of the world's 650 million disabled persons were unable to read or write, leading to significant efforts throughout the developing world to ensure that all children with disabilities attended school through ‘inclusive education’ programmes. But what of the vast majority of persons with disabilities who now are adolescents or adults, well beyond the reach of classroom education, or the estimate…
Inside Deaf Culture
Inside Deaf Culture. Carol Padden and Tom Humphries. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. 208 pp
HIV/Aids and Individuals with Disability
hallmark of the HIV/AIDS epidemic has been its impact on vulnerable populations. Surprisingly, one of the world's most vulnerable populations -individuals who live with a permanent physical, sensory (deafness, blindness), intellectual, or mental health disability -has been almost entirely overlooked despite the fact that they are at equal or increased risk of exposure to all known risk factors for HIV. It is commonly assumed that individuals with…
From quarantine to condoms: Shifting policies and problems of HIV control in Cuba
This study reviews HIV prevention in Cuba in light of (1) the liberalization of HIV quarantine, (2) the growth in tourism, and (3) the aggressive system of public health promotion. Sixty-two key informants, including Cubans who are HIV-positive, at risk, or working as health professionals, were interviewed during June and July of 1996. Findings include: (1) there is a common public perception that the government's national HIV screening and conta…
The Great Ape Project and Disability Rights: Ominous Undercurrents of Eugenics in Action
The Great Ape Project is an international animal rights movement with the goal of extending rights to nonhuman primates. While the authors of this essay are sympathetic with scholars who seek to ensure humane treatment for these species, they are concerned with the growing tendency by those in the project to draw analogies between nonhuman primates and humans with disabilities. It is felt that scholars in the Great Ape Project, ignoring findings …
Firearm Violence, Disability Rights, and Rehabilitation: Policy Revision in Light of Shifting Demographics
The demographics of disability in the United States are changing. A rapidly increasing minority within the larger disabled population consists of individuals who have become disabled as the direct result of firearm-related violence. This population of individuals differs markedly from those disabled from birth or as a result of accident or chronic illness, causes that have historically been familiar to our established medical and rehabilitation s…
Mother Father Deaf. Living between Sound and Silence . Paul Preston
Everyone here spoke sign language: Hereditary deafness on Martha's Vineyard
Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha’s Vineyard
From the 17th to the early 20th century, the population of Martha’s Vineyard manifested an extremely high rate of hereditary deafness. In contrast to the experience of most Deaf people, Deaf Vineyarders were thoroughly integrated into the daily life of the community. How was this possible?
Inheritance, poverty, and disability
Inheritance is a significant means of transferring wealth from one generation to the next, and therefore increasingly attracts attention from researchers and policy-makers working on intergenerational and multidimensional poverty.However, until now disabled persons have been overlooked in these discussions.This oversight is particularly unfortunate because, as a group, the estimated one billion people with disabilities (some 15% of the world's po…
From quarantine to condoms: Shifting policies and problems of HIV control in Cuba
This study reviews HIV prevention in Cuba in light of (1) the liberalization of HIV quarantine, (2) the growth in tourism, and (3) the aggressive system of public health promotion. Sixty-two key informants, including Cubans who are HIV-positive, at risk, or working as health professionals, were interviewed during June and July of 1996. Findings include: (1) there is a common public perception that the government's national HIV screening and conta…
The Great Ape Project and Disability Rights: Ominous Undercurrents of Eugenics in Action
The Great Ape Project is an international animal rights movement with the goal of extending rights to nonhuman primates. While the authors of this essay are sympathetic with scholars who seek to ensure humane treatment for these species, they are concerned with the growing tendency by those in the project to draw analogies between nonhuman primates and humans with disabilities. It is felt that scholars in the Great Ape Project, ignoring findings …
HIV/Aids and Individuals with Disability
hallmark of the HIV/AIDS epidemic has been its impact on vulnerable populations. Surprisingly, one of the world's most vulnerable populations -individuals who live with a permanent physical, sensory (deafness, blindness), intellectual, or mental health disability -has been almost entirely overlooked despite the fact that they are at equal or increased risk of exposure to all known risk factors for HIV. It is commonly assumed that individuals with…
Surviving polio in a post-polio world
Excitement mounts as the global health and international development communities anticipate a polio-free world. Despite substantial political and logistical hurdles, only 223 cases of wild poliovirus in three countries were reported in 2012. Down 99% from the estimated 350,000 annual cases in 125 countries in 1988-this decline signals the imminent global eradication of polio. However, elimination of new polio cases should not also signal an end t…
Long-lasting consequences of war on disability
This article investigates the impact of exposure to United States air force bombing during 1965-75 on the disability status of individuals in Vietnam in 2009. Using a combination of national census and US military data and an instrumental variable strategy which exploits the distance to the former North-South border as a quasi-experiment, the article finds a positive and significant impact of bombing exposure on district level disability rates 40…
Folklore and Disability: An Important-and Too Often Overlooked-Factor in Global Health and International Development Efforts
In this paper, I argue that the field of folklore and folklorists can-and should-make more of a contribution to global health and international development efforts and should be more involved in conversations about social justice and human rights. Drawing on my invited comments at the webinar sponsored by the Fellows of the American Folklore Society entitled "Interrogating the Normal: Folkloristic Engagements with Disability," held on March 25, 2…
Firearm Violence, Disability Rights, and Rehabilitation: Policy Revision in Light of Shifting Demographics
The demographics of disability in the United States are changing. A rapidly increasing minority within the larger disabled population consists of individuals who have become disabled as the direct result of firearm-related violence. This population of individuals differs markedly from those disabled from birth or as a result of accident or chronic illness, causes that have historically been familiar to our established medical and rehabilitation s…
Everyone here spoke sign language: Hereditary deafness on Martha's Vineyard
Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha’s Vineyard
From the 17th to the early 20th century, the population of Martha’s Vineyard manifested an extremely high rate of hereditary deafness. In contrast to the experience of most Deaf people, Deaf Vineyarders were thoroughly integrated into the daily life of the community. How was this possible?
Mother Father Deaf. Living between Sound and Silence . Paul Preston
Firearm Violence, Disability Rights, and Rehabilitation: Policy Revision in Light of Shifting Demographics
The demographics of disability in the United States are changing. A rapidly increasing minority within the larger disabled population consists of individuals who have become disabled as the direct result of firearm-related violence. This population of individuals differs markedly from those disabled from birth or as a result of accident or chronic illness, causes that have historically been familiar to our established medical and rehabilitation s…
The Great Ape Project and Disability Rights: Ominous Undercurrents of Eugenics in Action
The Great Ape Project is an international animal rights movement with the goal of extending rights to nonhuman primates. While the authors of this essay are sympathetic with scholars who seek to ensure humane treatment for these species, they are concerned with the growing tendency by those in the project to draw analogies between nonhuman primates and humans with disabilities. It is felt that scholars in the Great Ape Project, ignoring findings …
From quarantine to condoms: Shifting policies and problems of HIV control in Cuba
This study reviews HIV prevention in Cuba in light of (1) the liberalization of HIV quarantine, (2) the growth in tourism, and (3) the aggressive system of public health promotion. Sixty-two key informants, including Cubans who are HIV-positive, at risk, or working as health professionals, were interviewed during June and July of 1996. Findings include: (1) there is a common public perception that the government's national HIV screening and conta…
HIV/Aids and Individuals with Disability
hallmark of the HIV/AIDS epidemic has been its impact on vulnerable populations. Surprisingly, one of the world's most vulnerable populations -individuals who live with a permanent physical, sensory (deafness, blindness), intellectual, or mental health disability -has been almost entirely overlooked despite the fact that they are at equal or increased risk of exposure to all known risk factors for HIV. It is commonly assumed that individuals with…
Inside Deaf Culture
Inside Deaf Culture. Carol Padden and Tom Humphries. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. 208 pp
Illiteracy among adults with disabilities in the developing world: A review of the literature and a call for action
In the early 1990s, UNESCO estimated that perhaps 97% of the world's 650 million disabled persons were unable to read or write, leading to significant efforts throughout the developing world to ensure that all children with disabilities attended school through ‘inclusive education’ programmes. But what of the vast majority of persons with disabilities who now are adolescents or adults, well beyond the reach of classroom education, or the estimate…
HIV issues and people with disabilities: A review and agenda for research
Inheritance, poverty, and disability
Inheritance is a significant means of transferring wealth from one generation to the next, and therefore increasingly attracts attention from researchers and policy-makers working on intergenerational and multidimensional poverty.However, until now disabled persons have been overlooked in these discussions.This oversight is particularly unfortunate because, as a group, the estimated one billion people with disabilities (some 15% of the world's po…
Surviving polio in a post-polio world
Excitement mounts as the global health and international development communities anticipate a polio-free world. Despite substantial political and logistical hurdles, only 223 cases of wild poliovirus in three countries were reported in 2012. Down 99% from the estimated 350,000 annual cases in 125 countries in 1988-this decline signals the imminent global eradication of polio. However, elimination of new polio cases should not also signal an end t…
Accessible Connecticut: A Guide to Recreation for Children with Disabilities and Their Families
This user-friendly guide helps parents of children with disabilities plan family outings in Connecticut that are stimulating and fun. Intended for youngsters who use wheelchairs or who have visual, hearing, or mental impairments, it presents places throughout the state that are easily accessible and reasonably priced and that require little or no prior planning. The entries are arranged by type of activity. They include places to see animals (zoo…
Long-lasting consequences of war on disability
This article investigates the impact of exposure to United States air force bombing during 1965-75 on the disability status of individuals in Vietnam in 2009. Using a combination of national census and US military data and an instrumental variable strategy which exploits the distance to the former North-South border as a quasi-experiment, the article finds a positive and significant impact of bombing exposure on district level disability rates 40…
US Disparities in Life Expectancy: Not One “Population Health Iceberg” But Two
Folklore and Disability: An Important-and Too Often Overlooked-Factor in Global Health and International Development Efforts
In this paper, I argue that the field of folklore and folklorists can-and should-make more of a contribution to global health and international development efforts and should be more involved in conversations about social justice and human rights. Drawing on my invited comments at the webinar sponsored by the Fellows of the American Folklore Society entitled "Interrogating the Normal: Folkloristic Engagements with Disability," held on March 25, 2…
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