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A population health perspective on disability and depression in elderly women and men
- Author:
- BOULD Sally
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Aging and Social Policy, 17(2), 2005, pp.7-24.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Criticizes the narrow focus of the biomedical model of medical treatment for depression in the elderly and points to alternative policy approaches under the model of population health. This broader approach, together with a gender analysis, indicates a need for policies to prevent disability in late life and to alleviate existing disabilities by targeted exercise and practical self-help programs, as well as the provision of help in the home for disabled elderly women with depressive symptoms. For disabled elderly men with depressive symptoms, however, a more aggressive and comprehensive biomedical treatment is needed for better suicide prevention.
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.
Foucault and the government of disability
- Editors:
- TREMAIN Shelley, (ed.)
- Publisher:
- University of Michigan Press
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 340p.
- Place of publication:
- Ann Arbour, MI
This collection of essays considers the relevance of Foucault to the phenomenon of disability, and the significance of disability studies to understanding and interpreting Foucault. This collection is a response to Foucault's call to question what is regarded as natural, inevitable, ethical, and liberating; hence, contributors draw on Foucault to scrutinize a range of widely endorsed practices and ideas surrounding disability, including rehabilitation, community care, impairment, normality and abnormality, inclusion, prevention, accommodation, and special education.