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Two nations
- Authors:
- LINEHAN Tim, GEORGE Mike, MASSIE Bert
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 18.8.94, 1994, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Considers the extent to which the government's consultation paper on tackling discrimination against disabled people meets the demands of the disabled rights lobby.
Rights muddle
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 21.7.94, 1994, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Owing to a misunderstanding over legislation the rights of disabled people for housing and support are often going unrecognised.
Disability: an emerging global challenge
- Author:
- SEIPEL Michael M.O.
- Journal article citation:
- International Social Work, 37(2), April 1994, pp.165-178.
- Publisher:
- Sage
It is estimated that about one out of ten persons in the world is in one way or another disabled. The causes of disability vary, but the impact of disability on the individual and society is universal. The data examined reveal a strong connection between disability and socioeconomic disadvantage. This article argues that strategies for preventing disability and integrating disabled persons into the community are the most important approaches to addressing the problems of disability.
Friday - the thirteenth time
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 10.3.94, 1994, p.18.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The second reading of Labour MP, Roger Berry's Civil Rights (Disabled Persons) Bill is the thirteenth attempt in 15 years to get anti-discrimination legislation passed. Considers the likelihood of the law being changed and draws attention to implications for social services if it were passed.
The growing threat to the lives of handicapped people in the context of modernistic values
- Author:
- WOLFENSBERGER Wolf
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 9(3), 1994, pp.395-413.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The Western world is in the throes of a profound revolution of values and lifestyles. The new ones can neither sustain a functional societal polity, nor positive valuing of the lives of all sorts of impaired people. How such people are made dead - ie have their lives abbreviated, or taken outright - is briefly sketched. It is also show how impaired people suffer more than others when societal polity collapses. However, societal deathmaking is widely disguised, denied, or even glorified by modernistic values, aided by a corrupt and intellectually dishonest bioethics culture, and some of its propagandist idiom of deathmaking is sketched. As an alternative, the author offers an unequivocal position on the value of all human life, including the lives of impaired people of all ages at any stage of life, at any level of capacity, and of any degree of moral goodness. Bodies that claim to represent, and to advocate for, impaired people are called upon to uphold a coherent position on the sanctity of all human life.
What a performance!
- Author:
- SCOTT Victoria
- Journal article citation:
- ReHab NetWork, 34, Summer 1994, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- National Vocational Rehabilitation Association
Reviews the events leading to the failure of the Civil Rights (Disabled Persons) Bill.
The great advance...?
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 15.12.94, 1994, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Minister for Disabled People William Hague in launching proposals for the new Disability Bill, hailed it as 'the greatest advance for disabled people in the history of this country'. Finds out the opinions of people in the disabilities field.
Lessons from America: a study of the Americans with Disabilities Act
- Author:
- SCOTT Victoria
- Publisher:
- Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 53p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Looks in detail at the Americans with Disabilities Act. Outlines how and why the United States got civil rights legislation first and how the Act is working there. Examines existing legislation in the UK and goes on to outline what is needed here and how to get it.
Access denied: human rights and disabled people
- Authors:
- FOLEY Conor, PRATT Sue
- Publisher:
- Liberty
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 68p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Looks at the governments attitude towards civil rights for disabled people, at international law, and at discrimination against disabled people. Makes comparisons with the situation in Europe and in the United States.
Disabling laws, enabling acts: disability rights in Britain and America
- Author:
- GOODING Caroline
- Publisher:
- Pluto Press
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 238p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Argues that if the law can be used to counter discrimination on the grounds of race and gender, its scope should be extended to disabled people, and that the welfare model of disability should be abandoned in favour of a rights-based perspective.