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Choices and rights: eugenics, genetics and disability equality
- Author:
- SHAKESPEARE Tom
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 13(5), November 1998, pp.665-681.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article explores some current issues in human genetics and pre-natal diagnosis and develops an informed analysis from a disability equality perspective.
Whose life is it anyway?
- Author:
- DOWSON Steve
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 24.07.03, 2003, pp.38-39.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
There is apparently little concern about the possible impact of the new genetic sciences on the shape of humankind. The public may have qualms about some developments, such as human cloning, but the prospect of using the new knowledge to eradicate inherited illness and impairment is apparently welcomed without qualification. Some disability organisations, however, are expressing deep concern about where the science is leading us. Those people who most loudly defend the rights of disabled people are likely to base their position on a broader framework of human rights - a framework that will make them equally vehement in support of "a woman's right to choose".
Holistic solutions
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 5.8.99, 1999, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Asks what happens when a client's behaviour means home care agencies will not work with him. A social workers explains to the author how she was faced with the problem of whether to admit a man with multiple sclerosis and severe depression to a specialist home, and so compromise his valued independence.
Internal affairs
- Author:
- PATTERSON Lynne
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 13.6.96, 1996, p.21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author reflects on the worries facing her when she needed the services of colleagues in her social services department.
Equality, identity and disability rights movement: from policy to practice and from Kant to Nietzsche in more than one uneasy move
- Author:
- SMITH R. Steven
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 25(4), November 2005, pp.554-576.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Consistent with Social Work Codes of Ethics and mainstream social policy objectives, the Disability Rights Movement (DRM) promotes the universal values of equal rights and individual autonomy, drawing heavily from Kantian philosophy. However, an anti-universalized Nietzschean perspective is also promoted via the ‘social model’ of disability, challenging the political orthodoxy of rights-based social movements, and the aspirations of social workers to ‘empower’ disabled people. The author argues that these Kantian and Nietzschean strands within the DRM, whilst incommensurable, permit a radical assertion of disability-identity. That is, without conceding to value-relativism and postmodern particularlism, and allowing a ‘celebration of difference’ through establishing reciprocal social relations.
Screening networks: shared agendas in feminist and disability movement challenges to antenatal screening and abortion
- Author:
- MCLAUGHLIN Janice
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 18(3), May 2003, pp.297-310.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper identifies common ground in feminist and disability movement concerns with the social and ethical implications of antenatal screening and abortion. By examining the frameworks used by particular authors within each area, the author asserts that they both can and do have a shared agenda, which is focused on the social values that are embedded in antenatal screening and promote abortion as the obvious choice to the diagnosis of a congenital condition. The author claims that it is important to develop some kind of shared agenda in order to construct theoretical and methodological approaches, which pay equal attention to pregnant women (disabled and non-disabled) and disabled people. To aid the development of such an agenda the author draws on Actor Network Theory (ANT), which focuses on analysing the role of sociotechnical networks in securing particular social values and moral worlds. The issue for both disability studies and feminism is what kind of screening networks produce moral worlds that promote abortion, shape women's choices and express discrimination against disabled people.
'What matters to me is not what you're talking about' - maintaining the social model of disability in 'public and private' negotiations
- Authors:
- BECKETT Clare, WRIGHTON Elizabeth
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 15(7), December 2000, pp.991-999.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Moving from a medical to a social model of individual disability is a political process of change with implications for understanding of and relationship to borders between individual, social life and political participation. This process has echoes in the conceptual experience of change through movement for women's liberation and gay liberation. Conceptualisation of a public/private divide has been identified in both these movements, and can also be used productively to further the use of a social model of disability. In this way, public change in status and participation can be linked to private defeat of barriers to public and political participation. This article identifies some uses of conceptualising public and private as a way of locating service provision within a social model of disability.
Hobson's choice
- Author:
- REITH Lorna
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 5.9.96, 1996, pp.vii-viii.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Describes how charging for home care services remains contentious. Social workers are ambivalent about it, and service users are at best confused, and often intimidated by the system.
Research with disabled children: how useful is child-centred ethics?
- Authors:
- ALDERSON Priscilla, GOODEY Christopher
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Society, 10(2), June 1996, pp.106-116.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This paper is based on current research about the views of children and adults involved with mainstream and segregated education for children with physical emotional and learning difficulties. The article questions whether research with children necessarily raises unique questions about ethics and methods, and asks what these unique questions might be and how they arise. Considers that any extra complications in research with children are common to research with other 'minority' groups. Gives reasons for preferring rights based to child-centred ethics.