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Community care: a question of rights
- Editors:
- HARDING Tessa, ROBINSON Janice
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Social Work/King's Fund
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Short paper from a debate on the rights of disabled people to community care services.
Civil Rights (Disabled Persons)(Northern Ireland) Bill
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Parliament
- Publisher:
- HMSO
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 18p.
- Place of publication:
- London
I was born (in a hospital bed): when I was 31 years old
- Author:
- BROWN Steven E.
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 10(1), 1995, pp.103-110.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
'I was born (in a hospital bed) when I was 31 years old', is on one level an analysis of a personal experience and reaction to growing up with a disability. It is also a look at a process of integrating one person's awakening to the positive role a disability might play in someone's life with a common history of other individuals with disabilities and with the evolution of the disability rights movement in the US from the 1970s to the twenty-first century. The article is based on a speech delivered to a five-state disability rights conference in the early 1990s.
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.
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.