Karen Nakamura Libros

Bethel House, located in a small fishing village in northern Japan, was founded in 1984 as an intentional community for people with schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders. Using a unique, community approach to psychosocial recovery, Bethel House focuses as much on social integration as on therapeutic work. As a centerpiece of this...

A groundbreaking study of deaf identity, minority politics, and sign language, traces the history of the deaf community in Japan.