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Disability, oppression and public policy
- Author:
- CUNNINGHAM Sue
- Publisher:
- Independent Living (Keighley) Ltd
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 92p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bradford
Small scale research study looking at the impct of the Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 (MHOR) on disabled people. Issues addressed include: alternative approaches to the issue of good practice in manual handling; promoting disabled people's ideas of good practice in manual handling; reviewing disability oppression in the context of British society; the mechanism of professional power; the experience of disability oppression; evidence of institutional oppression of disabled people; and the argument for civil rights legislation to protect disabled people from oppressive experience.