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The heaviest burdens and life’s most intense fulfilment: A retrospective and re-understanding of my experiences with childhood liver disease and transplantation (2017)
Book Chapter
Savage, S. (2018). The heaviest burdens and life’s most intense fulfilment: A retrospective and re-understanding of my experiences with childhood liver disease and transplantation. In K. Runswick-Cole, T. Curran, & K. Liddiard (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Disabled Children's Childhood Studies (41-56). Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54446-9

This chapter presents a personal reflection on my childhood with liver disease, including thoughts on going to school with chronic illness, my family and undergoing transplantation. The chapter is presented under the framework set out at the begin... Read More about The heaviest burdens and life’s most intense fulfilment: A retrospective and re-understanding of my experiences with childhood liver disease and transplantation.

‘Rights indictors: Using disabled children’s childhood studies' (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Curran, T. (2017, June). ‘Rights indictors: Using disabled children’s childhood studies'. Paper presented at ISCI 2017: 6th Conference of the International Society for Child Indicators, Montreal, Canada

This paper asks how disabled children’s childhood studies can inform the development of child rights indicators. The use of child development and the medical model of disability is generally justified on the grounds that they enable us to identify ch... Read More about ‘Rights indictors: Using disabled children’s childhood studies'.