Virtual reality hope machines in a curative imaginary: recommendations for neurorehabilitation research from a critical disability studies perspective.

Purpose: This paper provides recommendations for neurorehabilitative research informed by insights from critical disability studies (CDS) and a research study that tested an augmented neurorehabilitative technology prototype.

Methods: The methodology combines critical reflection, feminist science studies and CDS to analyze how neurorehabilitation and disability studies conceptualize notions of disability and cure. It offers recommendations for reconciling the conflicting ideologies of cure that operate within neurorehabilitative research.

Balance, Capacity, and the Contingencies of Everyday Life: Narrative Etiologies of Health Among Women in Street-Based Sex Work.

There is an abundance of health research with women in street-based sex work, but few studies examine what health means and how it is practiced by participants. We embrace these tasks by exploring how a convenience sample of sex workers ( = 33) think about and enact health in their lives. Findings reveal pluralistic notions of health that include neoliberal, biomedical, and lay knowledge.

"People like us": spatialised notions of health, stigma, power and subjectivity among women in street sex work.

Most spatially-oriented studies about health, safety and service provision among women in street sex work have taken place in large urban cities and document how the socio-legal and moral surveillance of geographical spaces constrain their daily movements and compromise their ability to care for themselves. Designed to contribute new knowledge about the broader socio-cultural and environmental landscape of sex work in smaller urban centres, we conducted qualitative interviews and social mapping activities with thirty-three women working in a medium-sized Canadian city. Our findings demonstrate a socio-spatial convergence regarding service provision, violence, and stigma, which is common in sex trading spaces that double as service landscapes for poor populations.

Women living with disabilities and their experiences and issues related to the context and complexities of leaving abusive situations.

The health of women with disabilities, like other women, is affected by experiences of violence and abuse. However, the experiences of women living with disabilities is less well known and an important issue for rehabilitation professionals. In this paper we focus on presenting women's knowledge and experiences of violence and abuse regarding where abuse takes place, the forms of abuse; and the complexities associated with 'taking action'.