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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.
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.