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Disabling laws, enabling acts: disability rights in Britain and America
- Author:
- GOODING Caroline
- Publisher:
- Pluto Press
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 238p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Argues that if the law can be used to counter discrimination on the grounds of race and gender, its scope should be extended to disabled people, and that the welfare model of disability should be abandoned in favour of a rights-based perspective.
That giant step- US shows the way
- Author:
- GOODING Caroline
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 1(1), September 1994, pp.12-15.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
The death of the Civil Rights (Disabled Persons) Bill has signalled the start of new militancy by disabled people. To understand the full implications of the different legislative frameworks, the American experience is a useful starting point. Reviews significant events leading to US legislation and describes an actual case of a disabled woman employed under the British quota scheme; comparing her treatment after she was dismissed with that which could have been expected under American law.