Living with a disability. Learning how to be disabled / Simi Linton ; Reflections on pain, illness, and memory / Leonard Kriegel ; Managing a mental illness / Wendy Braun --
Living with people with disabilities. Living in the shadow of an autistic brother / Karl Taro Greenfeld ; Losing my mother to schizophrenia / Laura M. Flynn ; Adventures in caring for my mentally disabled sister / Terrell Harris Dougan ; I never expected to become a caregiver in my marriage / George Mairs --
Society and people with disabilities. The deaf community is diverse / Jane K. Fernandes ; So-called accessible accommodations are sometimes not so for the disabled / Bruce Mumford ; Disabled people's lives are worth saving / Ben Mattlin.

This volume provides an overview of people with disabilities in the United States, a chronology of important events, an annotated bibliography, and other resources for conducting further research. The author illuminates this often-neglected human side of these problems by presenting a collection of personal narratives of people who have had personal experience with physical and mental disabilities as participants, witnesses, or involved professionals.