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Ethics and Governance of AI in Healthcare discusses how ethical and human rights issues can be integrated into the transformational potential of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and automation in the fields of medicine and public health.

Through a broad sociological lens, the book takes a critical perspective on the social implications of AI and related technologies. It begins by examining the huge impact that AI is already having on medicine and public health, before spotlighting the inequalities in the way AI is designed and deployed across different social groups, highlighting issues of class, race, and gender, as well as power disparities in the roll-out of these technologies. The book then explores current ethical standards within healthcare settings, including technical and sociotechnical biases encoded into existing systems, before looking at a range of existing governmental approaches to AI regulation in medicine and healthcare. It concludes by suggesting a new sociological framework to ensure the governance of AI fully considers ethical and human rights issues in the future.

Important and erudite, and including practical recommendations, this book will be essential reading for students and scholars across Public Health, Sociology, Health and Social Care, Medicine and Nursing, as well as practitioners and policy-makers in these fields.

Intersex, Ageing, and Intersectionalities explores intersex lived experience through a Western intersex lens. Intersex people comprise almost 2 percent of the population and are born with physical variations that defy binary, medical definitions of male or female anatomy. Since at least the 1960s, it has been standard practice in many countries to perform genital surgeries and other irreversible "normalising" procedures on intersex children, purportedly for their benefit, but without consent and without patient follow-up or conducting longitudinal studies.

This book centres the voices of those most often excluded from conversations on intersex - that is, intersex people. It contributes to feminist intersectionality studies in novel ways by examining the lived experience of older intersex people - intersectional beings themselves - and how their lives, bodies, and identities converge with structural intersectional oppressions and barriers to wellbeing in areas such as family, medicine, education, employment, and relationships.

The book is intended for academic audiences who are interested in intersex and the complexities of sex and gender. It is also intended for students from a wide range of disciplines, as well as for practitioners, professionals, and activists who might encounter or work with intersex people.

Power and control sit at the heart of statutory social work. In a profession grounded in social justice, practices of control are often positioned as reinforcing inequality and oppression. Yet normative critiques of control embedded within conflictual theories of power can lead to overlooking the complex realities of everyday practice.

Drawing on practitioner and service user interviews, case file analysis and detailed observations, this book offers a rare ethnographic account of how control is enacted, negotiated and experienced in community mental health settings. Informed by Foucauldian conceptions of power, it moves beyond abstract debate to examine what control looks like on the ground.

Combining original research with critical analysis, it reveals the value of an ethically informed but non-prescriptive approach to the ambiguities of control, allowing for a more modest, honest and heterogenous orientation to progressive forms of practice.

Care is fundamental to our individual and collective well-being, but it is also deeply implicated in historical and present-day injustices.

Taking seriously the darker potentialities of care as a relation of exploitation and domination, this edited collection interrogates the social and governance infrastructures that variously shape, expropriate, necessitate and unravel care at the 'private' interpersonal level.

Combining rich empirical analysis and theoretical rigour, the chapters reveal:

* entrenched inequalities in informal care responsibilities and the resources needed to undertake them;

* the intimate relationship between care, exploitation and expropriation, including their frequent embeddedness in colonial power structures; and

* the urgency of reforming, resourcing and valuing informal care at the infrastructural level.

Invaluable reading for scholars and students of health and social care and social policy, this book offers a critical framework for reimagining care in the service of more just and equitable societies.

How forty years of neoliberal policy choices created an American health care system that prioritizes profit over people.

How can a nation with unmatched wealth and medical innovation also have the highest health care costs and the poorest health outcomes among its peers? In America's Wrong Turn, John E. McDonough offers a compelling explanation for this troubling puzzle of contemporary US life and shows that this reality did not arise by accident.

Beginning in the later twentieth century, a powerful political and economic philosophy began to reshape the United States and continues to mold the institutions that govern health care, insurance coverage, and population health. Across four decades, the rise of neoliberal thinking elevated privatization, deregulation, and profit maximization as guiding principles for public policy. McDonough illustrates how these ideas influenced medical care at every level, altering government roles, accelerating consolidation, encouraging the financialization of once-mission-driven sectors, and shifting the US health system's priorities away from patients and communities. The consequences of these changes include deepening inequality, eroded public health capacity, and a growing burden of medical debt.

Synthesizing history, policy analysis, and the lived realities of the American health system, McDonough reveals how a national commitment to economic freedom above all else set the stage for today's dysfunctional health care system. Despite today's crises, he also highlights emerging efforts that signal the possibility of a new direction, one based on fairness, accountability, and the restoration of health as a public value. America's Wrong Turn offers a framework for understanding how the United States arrived at this moment and what it will take to create a system worthy of the people it serves.

Explores the lasting echoes of an unprecedented pandemic that continues to shape politics in the MENA region today

From the Maghreb in North Africa to the Levant in the East, the COVID-19 pandemic dramatically impacted politics - and the promise of democratic governance - within the MENA region. In this edited volume, Anis Ben Brik assembles a group of scholars to explore how the Middle East and North Africa grappled with an unprecedented global health crisis that transcended medical dimensions and continues to manifest profound social, political, and economic implications for its people.

Featuring timely original research, including in-depth case studies and cross-country comparisons, contributors take us inside a region already grappling with complex political systems, social structures, and historical legacies. They show us how the pandemic triggered widespread democratic backsliding in the region, as countries like Egypt, Iran, and Saudi Arabia began to adopt emergency measures that extended well beyond the immediate public health crisis, including increased censorship, arrests of activists and journalists, and the suppression of political dissent. Contributors also examine how the pandemic impacted perceptions of political legitimacy within the region, shaping people's support and opposition to emergency measures, legislation, and regimes and governments themselves.

Ultimately, the book captures the ways in which a global state of emergency created even more opportunities for political abuse and suppression, enabling authoritarian leaders to further consolidate their power within the region.

Research Evidence Use and the Process of Improvement in Child Welfare: An Introductory Guide is an essential text for all child and family serving agencies engaged in the ongoing cycle of improvement.

The book provides a framework for structuring the improvement process and teaches users how to craft actionable questions about system outcomes. Chapters demonstrate analytic methods for answering those questions, grounded in foundational principles of longitudinal research. Readers will learn how to make meaning of scientifically defensible performance indicators and how to avoid common pitfalls that lead to unrepresentative findings.

The skills covered in this book will improve the ability of child welfare administrators to observe agency outcomes, develop theories of change, and, in turn, make organizational investments that advance the safety, permanence, and well-being of the children and families they serve. For agency leaders and practitioners, the book serves as a desk guide for how to conduct an evidence-based process of improvement. For academics and students in the field of social work and human services administration, the book provides foundational skills that future professionals will need in order to study and improve the effectiveness of service programs.

A wealth of guidance is available on supporting clients with lived experience of disability - yet there is little available that focuses on understanding the first-hand experience of psychologists who themselves identify as having a disability. This book responds to this gap in literature by providing narratives of psychologists with disabilities and exploring how their disability interacts with their experience of working in clinical practice.

The accounts represented within this book are varied, reflecting the wide range of experiences and challenges that psychologists with disabilities may encounter during their practice. Reflecting on the contributing authors' lived experience, chapters provide guidance on a range of topics related to navigating disability in clinical practice. This includes, but is not limited to:

• Normalizing mental health and disability
• Self-disclosure of disability, inside and out of the therapy room
• Late diagnosis of disability and adapting to shifts in identity
• Managing disability and unpredictability, including fluctuations in conditions
• Disability and intersectionality
• The role of autonomy

Providing a much-needed exploration of the experiences of psychologists who identify as having a disability, this will be an essential read for any mental health practitioner who resonates with this experience, or for any practitioner who wishes to better understand and support colleagues with disabilities.

"Every so often one comes across a book which pervades every dimension of ones being. This exceptional book is one and it is essential reading." - Julia Ross, British Association of Social Work

This groundbreaking book offers a critical, global perspective on mental health social work, aimed at both pre- and post-qualifying students. Moving beyond basic introductions, it presents a decolonised, holistic approach that challenges traditional models. By incorporating innovative ideas and indigenized practices, it seeks to transform mental health social work. Essential for future practitioners, this text inspires a new vision for the field, making it a must-read for those committed to advancing mental health social work.

The fourth edition of this textbook integrates contemporary topics shaped by environmental and public health policy with foundational knowledge about key environmental health policies and threats affecting communities locally and globally. Divided into three parts, Part I explores One Health, highlighting the interconnected health of people, animals, plants, and ecosystems, vaccines and preventable infectious diseases, and climate and health risks, emphasizing policy-driven community resilience. It also addresses natural disasters, emergency preparedness, and sustainability, focusing on the role of environmental policy in managing interdependent systems for long-term health. Part II examines the public health implications of foundational environmental policies developed with prevention in mind, including toxicants, air quality, water, and solid and hazardous wastes. Part III addresses persistent environmental health topics requiring renewed attention, such as noise and light pollution, food safety and security, the built environment, and transportation.

Features

• The only textbook linking environmental policies to the health of people, animals, plants, and ecosystems, authored by experts with extensive teaching experience in policy and public health.
• Integrates contemporary topics with foundational knowledge about environmental health policies and threats globally and locally.
• Critically evaluates sustainability's role in managing interconnected health systems through policy.
• Demonstrates the critical role of policy and the impact of policy gaps on public health and disease prevention.
• Includes practice questions in every chapter to support case-based learning and broad application.

This is a comprehensive textbook for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in public health and environmental sciences. It is also a great reference for professional education fostering transdisciplinary collaboration across public health, veterinary sciences, and sustainability systems.

Family, Work, and Community Issues for Parents of Children with Mental Health Disabilities provides accessible, internationally researched knowledge regarding the challenges of parenting a child with a mental health disability from a social work perspective.

Situating the care of children with mental health disability within a social justice and disability rights framework, it presents current interdisciplinary theories used to examine the phenomena of caring for a child with a mental health disability. Specifically addressing the facilitators and barriers for parents that support or inhibit their ability to manage their exceptional care with other social roles, it provides current international empirical evidence on how parenting a child with a mental health disability affects and is affected by work, family, and community resources. Chapters explore international policy responses to family caregiving of children with mental health disabilities and discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated shutdowns affected parents of children with mental health disabilities.

This volume will be required reading for social work educators, students, and professionals. It is also relevant for social work practice with children and families, and researchers, teachers, and practitioners in the fields of social policy, public administration, occupational psychology, and disability studies.

AI for Healthcare provides a comprehensive, evidence-based guide to how artificial intelligence is transforming medicine. Structured in three parts, the book first demystifies core technologies (machine learning, deep learning, large language models, and AI agents) through concrete clinical examples.

It then examines real-world applications already deployed in hospitals worldwide, including diagnostic imaging, predictive medicine, connected health, digital mental health therapies, AI-powered disability assistance, and hospital operations optimization.

The final part addresses the conditions for responsible implementation, including ethics, trust-building, cybersecurity, and regulatory frameworks. Each chapter is enriched with exclusive interviews featuring physician-researchers and technology leaders from institutions such as Stanford, Harvard, and MIT, as well as operational case studies from innovative technology companies and clinics.

The book bridges the gap between technical possibility and clinical reality. It is written for healthcare professionals, hospital decision-makers, health technology leaders, researchers, and policymakers who need to understand, evaluate, and act on AI within their organizations. Readers will gain a clear, jargon-free understanding of what AI can and cannot do today, the critical questions to ask before any deployment, and a practical framework for successfully implementing AI while keeping patients at the center.

Navigating Disability, HIV, Relationships and Abuse for Christian Women in Nigeria contains poignant stories of formidable women who, because of their gender and disabilities, were sexually assaulted and infected with HIV by people known to and loved by them. Focusing on the Christian women of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, the book brings together the often under-represented voices of women with disabilities and HIV in an under-researched area of Nigeria.

Fubara-Manuel builds on long-term ethnographic research to bring together the isolated cases of disability, HIV, gender-based violence and Christianity in sub-Saharan Africa. In so doing, she critically examines the perpetuation of rape culture and the role of faith communities and support groups in shaping women's responses. The author's work moves beyond victimhood frameworks to document the agency of women living with both disability and HIV, and their resilience and faith-based solidarities as resources for survival, resistance, and liberation from abuse.

The book advocates a conversation between men and women for the dismantling of patriarchal structures that promote and legitimise the rape culture perpetrated against women by men. By integrating lived theology, gender analysis, and disability studies, this book advances existing literature through relational and narrative-driven accounts that re-centre marginalised voices and rethink the role of Christian faith in contexts of sexual violence.

Care-experienced children and young people are nearly five times more likely than their peers to experience mental health difficulties, with close to half meeting criteria for a diagnosable disorder. Social workers play a central role in improving the mental health of care-experienced children and young people, yet they often face gaps in guidance on how best to respond to the challenges faced.

Drawing together the latest research, practice expertise and the views of young people with lived experience of growing up in care, this book explores:

* mental health problems that care-experienced children and young people are likely to have;

* how racism affects the experiences and mental health of black and minority ethnic children and young people;

* the contribution that social workers can make to the lives of care-experienced children and young people of all ages; and

* how to work effectively with Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) professionals.

Offering clear guidance to support better practice, this book is essential reading for social work practitioners, supervisors, managers, students, foster carers and anyone working in an allied profession to improve support and outcomes for care-experienced children and young people.

Health service practice requires diverse approaches and wide-ranging knowledge. This fully revised and expanded third edition draws on the expertise of leading researchers and practitioners to provide a guide to the disparate settings in which social workers are engaged, and the conceptual frameworks needed for effective practice.

The book includes three new chapters on taking a human rights approach in restrictive settings; working with women and couples at the significant life stage of pregnancy, birth and infancy; and on working inclusively with families in mental health. Part I provides an overview of the social determinants of health and discusses compassion in healthcare, neoliberalism and indigenous approaches to health. Part II explores key areas of practice including trauma-informed practice, mental health and aged care. Part III looks at politicised issues, and key reform agendas in the field including suicidal distress and refugee health, concluding with a consideration of health social work in regional, rural and remote settings.

Underpinning this book is a clear guide to assessment procedures, case management, strengths-based practices and the development of effective partnerships and collaboration. All this makes Social Work Practice in Health a key reference tool for students and practitioners of social work.

The interplay between power, communication and change is the bedrock of what social work is, what it needs to contend with and what it seeks to achieve. This textbook draws on these foundational concepts in order to combine the worlds of theory and practice, aiming to connect the two often disparate sides of social work.

Drawing on the key concepts of power, communication and change throughout, the book shows that these essential elements are evident in the explanation and application of all theory and practice perspectives. Divided into three sections, this work delves into each of these underpinning concepts in turn, demonstrating how they permeate all aspects of social work. Chapters address dimensions of power and embedded social structures; the complexities of communication and approaches to difficult conversions; and how assessment skills, along with a range of practice models can help to challenge injustices and facilitate change. In doing so, these chapters get to the heart of social work, by iterating the foundational goals of dispersing power, fostering effective communication and supporting change.

Written in an accessible style that is both clear and engaging, this book will be of interest to all students of social work and social work professionals.

Participatory Governance, Social Work and Social Policy in Times of AI explores the intersection of participatory governance, inclusive social welfare, social work, and artificial intelligence in the transformation of social services systems worldwide.

Rooted in the experiences and insights of professionals such as experts, policy practitioners, and civic innovators, this book provides a timely examination of how digital tools, especially AI, are reshaping civic engagement, helping professions such as social work, democratic accountability, and welfare systems worldwide. Based on the outcomes of the Ronda meetings of experts in 2024 and 2025, as well as a UN side event seminar aligned with the annual session of the Commission for Social Development in 2025, this volume offers theoretical grounding, comparative case studies, and practical recommendations. Addressing global trends such as post-COVID recovery, climate transitions, population ageing, and digital transformation, with a special focus on ensuring inclusivity, equity, and ethical use of AI, it also analyses the problems related to social protection and social services in different contexts, with special attention to the challenges faced by local administrations, which, in many countries, are responsible for the provision of social services.

This book is essential reading for all scholars, students, and professionals in social work, social policy, and governance who seek to build welfare systems that are not only technologically advanced but also equitable, transparent, and genuinely responsive to community needs.

This book advances an argument for global health justice: a just world in which everyone, regardless of nationality or place of birth, has genuine opportunities to be healthy.

It presents a comprehensive vision of health equity beyond borders, which takes seriously the complex reality of global health while acknowledging the immense challenges in achieving global health justice. These include debates about medical brain drain, armed conflict, global pharmaceutical patents and political arguments for putting one's 'own people' first.

In addressing these issues, the author brings theories and debates within normative political theory explicitly into conversation with the bioethics and public health literature to provide a comprehensive book-length account of global health justice.

It is widely recognised that biological, microbial and social processes constitute each other, but there is much less agreement about what this means, or about how this interweaving should be conceptualised and studied. Whilst recognising that there has been huge growth in more-than-human approaches and in contributions from science and technology studies and feminist scholarship, this volume advocates that more ideas are needed if we are to address global threats, including the impacts of climate change, growing antimicrobial resistance, pandemics, the geographies and distribution of zoonoses and other large biosocial phenomena.

Contributors from disciplines including anthropology, geography, sociology and public health bring these resources to bear on fundamental questions about scale and transmission, the place of human bodies in social and biological theory, and concepts of health, risk and disease. Informed by real-life examples relating to food, insects, water and air, the spread of disease and antimicrobial resistance, the result is an agenda-setting book positioned at the intersection of research and policy.

It will appeal to scholars and academics with interest in social theory, microbes and public health, as well as academics and advanced students of geography, anthropology, sociology, medical sociology, social studies of science and the history of health.

The first year of practice can be a particularly challenging time for NQSWs. The Assessed and Supported year in Employment (ASYE) is primarily concerned with supporting NQSWs to establish you on the first rung of your professional career. The expectation is that knowledge and skills gained in qualifying education are consolidated and that new knowledge and skills are developed in practice relevant to the employment setting.

Focusing in on the transition from study to work and what professionalism looks like in practice, this book has been designed to help you get a true sense of what it's like to work within today's health care system. It's been written in conjunction with Social Work Managers, Service Users and NQSWs themselves to provide a detailed and balanced assessment of what it's like to work as a social worker and tests you on key areas you'll be assessed on throughout the ASYE.

This book explores the moral significance of welfare by dissecting a dichotomy central to moral theory and welfare ethics: the distinction between personal and impersonal views. It systematically examines this distinction, revealing its ambiguities and implications for moral judgements in general and issues of population ethics and interpersonal welfare trade-offs in particular.

This book argues for the Dual Personal View of Welfare, asserting that welfare has moral value both in absolute terms and through comparative considerations for individuals. Structured in three parts, it first disambiguates the personal-impersonal distinction, then evaluates its various aspects, and finally develops a dual theory of outcome comparisons. The author's innovative approach addresses challenges such as the intransitivity of "better than" and the complexities of population ethics, offering a set-relative strategy that re-establishes transitivity within fixed sets of outcomes. By providing the first systematic analysis of personal and impersonal views, this book promises to reshape discussions on the moral value of welfare and its implications for future generations.

Accessible yet rigorous, The Dual Force of Welfare is essential for moral philosophers and ethicists, but will also be of great interest to scholars in related fields such as decision theory, political theory, and social economics.

In 2006, the United States Department of Defense for the first time authorized the use of FDA-approved psychiatric medications in the physical and tactical spaces of military operations including active combat. This policy change overturned a century of military psychiatry orthodoxy, which prioritized non-pathologizing, non-medication treatment for combat stress. Amid an ongoing global war, the US military embraced psychopharmacy as a radical and untested tool for keeping soldiers on the counterinsurgency battlefield and deploying them again and again, even with psychiatric diagnoses. Through powerful storytelling and original analysis, Stabilizing Empire uncovers a quiet revolution during the war on terror: the pharmaceuticalization of battlefield mental health care.

Europe's health and social care systems are suffering from chronic staff shortages, rising inequalities and the long-term consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. These issues pose urgent questions about the sustainability and resilience of public services across the continent.

This edited volume offers the first evidence-based framework for tackling these issues. Drawing on cross-European case studies - from Scotland and Finland to Italy, Germany and Norway - the authors examine the structural, contextual and political factors shaping labour shortages. Using social democratic, neoliberal and corporatist welfare models, they present a compelling rationale for renewed investment and long-term growth in public services.

An original contribution to workforce theory, this book provides actionable strategies for tackling staff shortages and building resilient systems - offering both a diagnosis of the workforce crisis and a way forward for its resolution.

How Western nutrition science defined difference as disease in modern China.

For more than a century, Western observers have treated Chinese foodways as evidence of deficiency, danger, or backwardness. In Nutritional Imperialism, Hilary A. Smith shows how these assumptions entered the heart of modern nutrition science and reshaped understandings of health, diet, and difference. Nutrition scientists, physicians, and policymakers presented Western dietary patterns as universal benchmarks of health and transformed ordinary physiological variation into signs of pathology.

Beginning in the late nineteenth century, Western researchers compared Chinese diets to Euro-American norms and framed rice-based, low-dairy, and low-meat eating patterns as evidence of weakness. Over time, these judgments hardened into scientific claims about vitamin deficiency, protein insufficiency, lactose intolerance, and alcohol metabolism-each treated as a disorder requiring intervention. The book follows these ideas from the early twentieth century to the early twenty-first, showing how Chinese scientists and officials both adopted and contested nutritional standards shaped elsewhere.

Through detailed historical cases, Nutritional Imperialism calls for closer scrutiny of how science defines normalcy. The book offers a powerful reminder that expertise is never neutral-and that nutritional standards carry political consequences long after their origins are forgotten.

What revolutionary disability politics look like today, with lessons for larger liberatory movements.

In recent political times, disability identity has been mobilized in ways that paradoxically compound bodily injury and disability. This single-issue approach obscures the oppression of disabled people and prevents solidarity across difference.

In Disability, Revolution, Robert McRuer introduces alternatives to "one-dimensional disability," providing an accessible overview of disability justice movements and their relevance to larger emancipatory coalitions. Exploring the most prominent examples from the past several decades, the book focuses on the convergence of queer and crip movements, mad pride, intersectional disability justice work, neurodiversity, and the globalization of disability alliances. Essential for anyone interested in disability politics, this book shows how these multivalent movements help us imagine alternative disabled worlds.

"This book will not make it simple. It will make it more honest, more disciplined, and more likely to produce results that persist."

- Professor the Lord Darzi of Denham, from the Foreword

Healthcare transformation initiatives systematically fail despite decades of reform and billions in investment.

The $4.3 trillion US healthcare system and GBP200+ billion NHS continue to experience declining outcomes, workforce burnout, and operational inefficiency. While existing books offer deep expertise in specific domains (Lean methodology, competitive strategy, technology implementation), healthcare transformation requires an integrated approach spanning design methodology, clinical operations, governance understanding, and stakeholder alignment. This book provides healthcare executives with the first comprehensive guide to design thinking methodology, written by someone with both extensive medical training and professional design practice. The book bridges deep clinical knowledge with professional design expertise, offering evidence-based frameworks tested with healthcare leaders.

Drawing on peer-reviewed research, the author's published articles, and real-world case studies, the book demonstrates how design thinking can reduce clinical trial costs, improve AI implementation success rates, and enable sustainable organisational transformation-ultimately leading to equitable and sustainable healthcare. This book also addresses the critical gap between knowing that healthcare needs transformation and understanding how to achieve it, providing access to actionable tools, frameworks, and methodologies to drive change in these organisations-from pharmaceutical R&D to hospital operations, from policy design to technology implementation.

The book positions design thinking not as an abstract theory but as a practical methodology that healthcare professionals already use intuitively in clinical decision-making, now formalized for organisational transformation.

In the United States, childcare is presented in law and policy as a matter of "parental choice." Mothers, however, experience it differently. Instead of empowering families, childcare today often functions as an "invisible system" or a missing market-and one in which mothers find few good options. Yet because most mothers are also employed, they must still find a way to make do.

Based on years of ethnographic and administrative research, sociologist Jennifer Woltil Bouek explores how mothers search for, secure, and maintain care for their children within this complex organizational field-and the heavy costs they bear in the process. Her work illustrates just how the American childcare system sorts and stratifies, leading to disparate (and sometimes surprising) outcomes. Grounded in personal narratives drawn from a diverse sample of mothers, childcare providers, bureaucrats, and policy advocates, Everything Is Broken tells a striking story of access and exclusion from the inside out.

A core function of social work is to assist, empower, and protect the most vulnerable in society, requiring social workers to often make decisions in complex and challenging situations. This book helps social workers understand their statutory duties, keep up to date with relevant law, legislation and legal processes and learn how to apply this knowledge to social work practice. Using jargon-free language, it provides a grounding in legally appropriate, rights-based social work across services for children and families and child protection, adult care law, youth justice, court work, professional regulation and human rights.

This volume engages with disability heritage as a participatory, political, relational, and unfinished practice, linking the preservation of the past to lived experience in the present as well as imagined futures. Contributors examine how disability reshapes what counts as heritage, who it is for, and how it is made, and demonstrate ways to transform institutional as well as community-based approaches.

Contributors from Ireland, Germany, Australia, the UK, Sweden, Japan, Poland, Romania, Belgium, Italy, and The Netherlands apply concepts from critical disability studies and disability history to explore participatory, activist, and decolonial practices that challenge ableist structures. Written in an accessible way and drawing on case studies from performance, museums, (digital) archives, landscapes, and architecture, chapters demonstrate how disability is embedded in histories yet rarely acknowledged as a constituting force within them. Positioning disability as integral to heritage-making, the authors show how disability actively shapes archival research, heritage practices, and what can be remembered. Topics include integrating disability perspectives in heritage education, redesigning recruitment and career trajectories, the challenges and benefits of working both within and outside of established institutions, strategies for reinterpreting objects including embodied and sensory methods, and collecting intangible heritage.

The book is aimed at scholars and students in heritage, museum, archival, disability, cultural and historical studies, as well as practitioners, policymakers, and activists. It offers conceptual tools and grounded examples for engaging disability heritage not as a bounded and stable field or object, but as a relational practice that demands attentiveness to friction and difference.