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Trouble in Paradise- a disabled person's right to the satisfaction of a self-defined need: some conceptual and practical problems
- Author:
- HANDLEY Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 15(2), March 2000, pp.313-325.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper questions the usefulness of the rights-based approach to ameliorating social situation of disabled people in Britain and advances two criticisms. First, that rights and self-defined needs have been under-theorised by disability theorists to the extent that they have insufficiently appreciated he problems that these approaches pose. The paper suggests that rights to appropriate resources to satisfy self-defined needs will generate vast numbers of competing rights claims and that the resulting tendency of rights to conflict has been under-appreciated. Secondly, that there has been little consideration of how these conflicts might be reconciled. The first two sections of the paper look at the concepts of ascribed and self-defined needs, respectively, whilst the final one looks at some of the problems of the rights approach and some of the difficulties of making self-defined need the basis of rights claims.