Disability Studies Across the Disciplines
Project CAREER: Development of an Interprofessional Demonstration to Support the Transition of Students with TBI from Postsecondary Education to Employment
Project CAREER is an interprofessional demonstration designed to improve the employment success of undergraduate college and university students with traumatic brain injury (TBI). The goal of this demonstration is to develop a technology-driven, long-term and resource-rich support program Veteran and civilian postsecondary students with TBI that merges assistive technology and vocational rehabilitation best practices through.
“Good Morality Is Good Medicine”: Public Health, Disability, and American Christianity since the 1950s
This new book project examines the history of American Christian engagement with health and disability policy in the U.S. since the 1950s. It demonstrates how Christians have shaped debates over public health, including disability policy, in national discussions of alcoholism, the patients’ rights movement, euthanasia, the rights of disabled children, and needle exchange. Drawing on archival research, legal cases, and media analysis, it tracks this history among mainline and evangelical Protestants, Catholics, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and black church leaders—as well as among secular public health workers—to show the range and scope of Christian influence upon health policy in secular America.
Dr. Karen Jacobs is a clinical professor of occupational therapy and the program director of the on-line post-professional doctorate in occupational therapy (OTD) program at Boston University. She has worked at Boston University for 31 years and has expertise in the development and instruction of on-line graduate courses.
Dr. Jacobs earned a doctoral degree at the University of Massachusetts, a Master of Science at Boston University, and a Bachelor of Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
Anthony Petro is an assistant professor of religion at Boston University. His first book, After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, and American Religion (forthcoming with Oxford University Press), examines the history of American religious responses to the AIDS crisis and their role in the promotion of a national moral discourse on sex. He also co-chairs a five-year seminar called “Global Perspectives on Religion and HIV/AIDS” for the American Academy of Religion. A historian of religion in the United States, Dr. Petro has research and teaching interests in the history of sexuality; disability studies; and religion, medicine, and public health.
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