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Poverty and disabled people: challenging dominant debates and policies
- Author:
- BERESFORD Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 11(4), December 1996, pp.553-567.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article explores the relationship between poverty, disability and impairment in a global context. It challenges dominant critiques of poverty and disability, and explores the critiques, policy proposals and developments of the disabled people's movement to combat poverty. It offers an international perspective including the experience of both the North and South.
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.
Rights and wrongs...
- Author:
- HUDSON Bob
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 28.7.88, 1988, pp.86O-861.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Distinguishes between "claim rights" and "moral rights" of handicapped people and the need to clarify practice.
Mainstreaming equality: the implications for disabled people
- Author:
- WITCHER Sally
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Society, 4(1), January 2005, pp.55-64.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Mainstreaming equality involves integrating equality considerations from the outset into how an organization operates, its policies and practices. Whether this works to the advantage of disabled people depends critically on the quality of understanding of equality issues for different groups. This paper begins by clarifying goals for social justice, social inclusion and equality and then considers the salience of disabled people as a social category. It briefly reviews different equality strategies, before focusing on mainstreaming and its potential to promote cultural change and socially just distribution. An analytical framework to support mainstreaming is outlined. The paper concludes by stressing the importance of disabled people's involvement with mainstreaming equality if outcomes are to promote social justice.
Social justice and disabled people: principles and challenges
- Authors:
- GOODLAD Robina, RIDDELL Sheila
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Society, 4(1), January 2005, pp.45-54.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Social justice is a policy aim of the UK Labour government. This paper considers the applicability of the concept to disability, seeking to establish principles for conceptualising social justice and disability and considering the nature of the challenges for public policy and society posed by this conceptualisation. The paper considers how disability is implicated in two types of claims about the source of social injustice: those concerned with socially constructed differences between people; and those arising from material inequalities. Appropriate values underpinning alternative conceptions of social justice are discussed and tensions in policymaking considered.
Room to move forward
- Author:
- McCURRY Patrick
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 12.11.98, 1998, p.10.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on how although new proposals on welfare reform have been widely welcomed, disability campaigners argue that the package isn't as benevolent as it may first appear.
A commission with teeth?
- Author:
- DALY Nikki
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 30.7.98, 1998, p.9.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Examines the reaction to the recently published White Paper on a Disability Rights Commission.
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.
The development of direct payments in the UK: implications for social justice
- Authors:
- RIDDELL Sheila, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Society, 4(1), January 2005, pp.75-85.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Direct payments have been heralded by the disability movement as an important means to achieving independent living and hence greater social justice for disabled people through enhanced recognition as well as financial redistribution. Drawing on data from the ESRC funded project Disabled People and Direct Payments: A UK Comparative Perspective, this paper presents an analysis of policy and official statistics on use of direct payments across the UK. It is argued that the potential of direct payments has only partly been realised as a result of very low and uneven uptake within and between different parts of the UK. This is accounted for in part by resistance from some Labour-controlled local authorities, which regard direct payments as a threat to public sector jobs. In addition, access to direct payments has been uneven across impairment groups. However, from a very low base there has been a rapid expansion in the use of direct payments over the past three years. The extent to which direct payments are able to facilitate the ultimate goal of independent living for disabled people requires careful monitoring.
The law, rights and disability
- Editor:
- COOPER Jeremy
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 317p.,bibliog.s
- Place of publication:
- London
Includes chapters on: working in partnership with disabled people; changing attitudes to the rights of people; improving the civil rights of people with disabilities through international law; improving the civil rights of people with disabilities through domestic law; the legal regulation of the powers and duties of local authorities with regard to disabled people; the Disability Discrimination Act 1995; disability, housing and homelessness; disability and mental health law; disabled children; and messages from disability research for law, policy and practice.