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Dignity and older Europeans: final report of focus groups of Spanish professionals
- Author:
- BLASCO Sergio Arino
- Publisher:
- Dignity and Older Europeans Consortium
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 76p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
The right to, and the need for dignity is frequently cited in policy documents relating to the health and social care of older people. It is also expressed as an important value in professional codes and declarations of human rights. Yet concerns about the standards of care for a growing number of older people abound despite global ageing being a well-recognised Dignity and Older Europeans is an international research project which brings together a range of academics, clinicians, and user groups to explore the concept of dignity in the lives of Older Europeans. The project spanned 3 years until December 2004 and involved 8 partners from 6 European countries including Spain.
Educating for dignity: a multi-disciplinary workbook
- Author:
- DIGNITY AND OLDER EUROPEANS CONSORTIUM
- Publisher:
- Dignity and Older Europeans Consortium
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 93p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
This study material was developed from an international research project 'Dignity and Older Europeans'. The material is derived from contributions from older people; health and social care professionals and other members of the public in the six countries which took part in the research UK (England and Wales), France, Ireland, Spain, Sweden and Slovakia. The learning activites are presented in four sections: Old Age - what does it mean?; Understanding Dignity; Dignity in care; and The impact of the system. Each section includes narratives based around the key themes that emerged from the study. The concluding section offers a brief discussion of the exercises and provides an overview of the main findings.
Implementing the social model of disability: theory and research
- Editors:
- BARNES Colin, MERCER Geof
- Publisher:
- Disability Press
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 233p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
This book contains 13 chapters on the theoretical and research implications of the social model of disability. Over the last three decades disability activists have established the social model of disability as a comprehensive critique of mainstream academic theories and policy approaches. The contributors, including established figures and newcomers to the field, raise a number of important controversies and concerns central to theorising and researching disability in the 21st century. Taken together they provide ample testimony to the continuing vitality of debates around the social model in disability studies.
Integrating special children: some ethical issues
- Editors:
- FAIRBAIRN Gavin, FAIRBAIRN Susan
- Publisher:
- Avebury
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 175p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Looks at the arguments for and against integration. Includes chapters on: ethical issues; equality; psychological issues; the right to an education; equal opportunities; creating a desirable future for people with significant learning difficulties; and integration, values and society.
One unknown
- Author:
- HICKS Gill
- Publisher:
- Rodale
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 238p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Gill Hicks was on her way to work on a Piccadilly line tube train on 7 July 2005, when a terrorist bomb exploded in the carriage in which she was travelling. Amazingly, and against all the odds, she survived the blast, but due to the injuries she sustained her legs had to be amputated. In this moving memoir Gill recounts the events of that day, from facing the very real prospect that she might die and her subsequent fight to live, to later coming to terms with losing her legs and living life as a disabled person. The book includes excerpts from the diary she wrote during her rehabilitation, an account of her wedding day in December 2005, and traces the journey of her extraordinary recovery. Having survived this life-shattering experience, Gill asks important questions about how we set our priorities and the way we live our lives. She motivates readers to 'seize the day' and live life to the full while striving for a better, more tolerant world. Her powerful message has a broader audience than most 'ordinary' motivational books because of the experience out of which it was borne. This moving account is told with great integrity and honesty, and Gill's lack of self pity and keen sense of humour lighten the tone and make this book special
Quality of life and human difference: genetic testing, health care, and disability
- Editors:
- WASSERMAN David, BICKENBACH Jerome, WACHBROIT Robert, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 273p.
- Place of publication:
- New York
The role of quality assessments in social policy, especially health policy, and ethical and social issues raised by prenatal testing for disability are discussed in this analysis. A theme of the literature has been the role played by controversial assumptions about the quality of life of people with disabilities. This book turns the perspectives of disability scholars to issues that have largely been the province of health methodology, policy and philosophy, while re-directing philosophical policy analysis to problems that have largely been the province of disability scholarship.
Disability, difference, discrimination: perspectives on justice in bioethics and public policy
- Authors:
- SILVERS Anita, WASSERMAN David, MAHOWALD Mary B.
- Publisher:
- Rowman and Littlefield
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 343p.
- Place of publication:
- Lanham, MD
How should we respond to individuals with disabilities? What does it mean to be disabled? Over fifty million Americans, from neonates to the fragile elderly, are disabled. Some people say they have the right to full social participation, while others repudiate such claims as delusive or dangerous. In this book, three experts in ethics, medicine, and the law address pressing disability questions in bioethics and public policy. The authors test important theories of justice by bringing them to bear on subjects of concern in a wide variety of disciplines dealing with disability. They do so in the light of recent advances in feminist, minority, and cultural studies, and of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Disability: definitions, value and identity
- Author:
- EDWARDS Steven D.
- Publisher:
- Radcliffe
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 156p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
This book looks at disablement from a philosophical perspective by examining these questions through a combination of critical review, discussion and narrative theory. The book provides practical and concise information for social care workers, counsellors, academics, students, genetics counsellors, and medical and healthcare ethicists. It will also be invaluable for disability pressure groups and policy makers.
Sexualities: personal lives and social policy
- Editor:
- CARABINE Jean
- Publisher:
- Policy Press,|Open University
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 184p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
This book explores the choices that people make about their sexuality and how these can transform their personal lives. It analyses how social policy informs and responds to such choices through an examination of normative assumptions about sexuality and its role in forming, regulating and constituting welfare subjects, discourses, theories, provisions and practices. The authors illustrate that sexuality is simultaneously central and marginal to the concerns of social policy.They place particular emphasis on social policy as a site of regulation that restricts and constrains our personal lives, but also highlight how social policy might be used as an instrument of positive change.These processes are explored through such issues as: the significance of gender relations and identities in normative constructions of heterosexual marriage, the nuclear family and parenthood; the regulatory effects of policy-making on young people’s sexual experiences and activity and their strategies of resistance; and the normative standards of sexuality and the extent to which these have marginalized and silenced the sexuality of disabled people.
Social care practice handbook
- Authors:
- LEONARD CHESHIRE, SOCIAL CARE ASSOCIATION
- Publisher:
- Leonard Cheshire,|Social Care Association
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- ca. 254p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This resource covers all aspects of dealing with clients in health care, social care, home car, day care and short-term residential and day-care settings, including fundamental basics, such as respecting clients rights and effective communication. Includes a code of ethics and policy on equal opportunities.