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Nancy E. Rice
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BIOGRAPHY

Associate Professor, Exceptional Education, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. Her contributions to SAGE Publications’s Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice (2005) formed the basis of her contributions to Britannica.

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Disability studies, an interdisciplinary area of study based in the humanities and social sciences that views disability in the context of culture, society, and politics rather than through the lens of medicine or psychology. In the latter disciplines, “disability” is typically viewed as a distance…
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