Howard I. Kushner's On the Other Hand: Left Hand, Right Brain, Mental Disorder, and History

After a distinguished career as a professor at Emory University and San Diego State University, this left-handed author-whose mother was also a southpaw-examines left-handedness in the context of studies that have contested the classifications and meanings of disability, forcing researchers to re-examine their assumptions and attitudes about disability while challenging public policies aimed at them.