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Defending the social model
- Authors:
- SHAKESPEARE Tom, WATSON Nicholas
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 12(2), April 1997, pp.293-300.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Discusses the social model of disability and how it has had a limited impact in areas other than disability studies.
Back to the future? new genetics and disabled people
- Author:
- SHAKESPEARE Tom
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 44/45, Autumn 1995, pp.22-35.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Attempts to put developments in molecular biology into the broader context of disability rights and the relationship between disabled people and medical science. Suggests that disabled people have not been consulted or involved in debates around the new genetics and that a wider discussion of these developments is urgently needed.
Choices and rights: eugenics, genetics and disability equality
- Author:
- SHAKESPEARE Tom
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 13(5), November 1998, pp.665-681.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article explores some current issues in human genetics and pre-natal diagnosis and develops an informed analysis from a disability equality perspective.
Disability, genetics and global justice
- Author:
- SHAKESPEARE Tom
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Society, 4(1), January 2005, pp.87-95.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Genetic developments are viewed with distrust by the disability rights community. But the argument that genetic screening promotes social injustice is not straightforward. Disabled people are affected by both the problems of impairment and the problems of disability. Preventing impairment should be a priority as well as preventing disability. Questions of social justice arise if biomedical approaches are prioritized at the cost of structural changes in society. They also arise when disabled people do not have access to genetic medicine. On a global scale, the priorities for impairment prevention are basic healthcare, not high technology medicine.
Cultural representation of disabled people: dustbins for disavowal?
- Author:
- SHAKESPEARE Tom
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 9(3), 1994, pp.283-299.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Impairment and imagery are neglected within the social model approaches to disability. This is connected to a neglect of representation. Comparing the experience of disabled people to that of women, the author explores the prejudice underlying cultural representation, using a variety of theoretical models, and concludes by suggesting an explanation for popular prejudice against disabled people.