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Deaf and disabled, or deafness disabled: towards a human rights perspective
- Author:
- CORKER Mairian
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 175p.,diags.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Buckingham
Uses a multidisciplinary, post-modernist approach to the search for an inclusive framework for understanding deafness and disability, which aims to liberate the political potential of socio-cultural diversity and develop our thinking about disability as a form of social oppression.
Valuing diversity: the disability agenda: we've only just begun
- Author:
- CAMPBELL Jane
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 17(4), June 2002, pp.471-478.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
If society is to value all its disabled people, it needs to find ways of making this collective minority powerful enough to influence the future. Shaping the future is something the Disabled People's Movement has been preoccupied with for decades. The key is unlock some of the fundamental principles of the social model of disability. This model has the potential to transform disabled people's lives. It has become the disability movement's tool for social inclusion.
Genetics and society: an introduction
- Author:
- PILNICK Alison
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 223p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Buckingham
Examines contemporary developments in the scientific understanding of genetics and the ways in which these are transforming possible relations between humans and the world around them. The book aims to encourage readers to critically examine social issues that relate to genetic science . The focus is mainly on human genetics exploring those developments which are seen as most significant in terms of public perceptions, social impact or public policy. Contents include: 'good' genes and 'bad' genes, a historical perspective; genetics and behaviour; antenatal screening and testing; the human genome project, gene therapy and pharmogenetics; cloning; bioethics; the future of genetic research and development.