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A small matter of equality: living with restricted growth
- Authors:
- SHAKESPEARE Tom, WRIGHT Michael, THOMPSON Sue
- Publisher:
- Restricted Growth Association
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 72p.
- Place of publication:
- Yeovil
Adults with restricted growth, or dwarfism, are far more disabled by social barriers and by medical problems than has previously been realised, according to this report. A team of researchers at Newcastle University, led by sociologist Dr Tom Shakespeare and geneticist Dr Michael Wright, conducted the three-year study, which was managed by the Restricted Growth Association. The study is the largest research project of its kind to have been carried out into the quality of life of adults affected by conditions that cause restricted growth. Restricted Growth affects approximately one in 10,000 births each year. Some 75 per cent of individuals born with restricted growth conditions are born to two parents of average height. One of the key findings of the study was that almost all restricted growth people suffer unwanted public attention. Some 97 per cent of respondents said they have experienced name calling, while others cited problems with abuse including mockery, and sometimes even physical violence.
Imagining welfare: help
- Author:
- SHAKESPEARE Tom
- Publisher:
- Venture Press/British Association of Social Workers
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 110p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Explores the social relations of care from a disability studies perspective. Discusses the concept of giving and receiving help in terms of colonialisation and of the 'other'. Describes those who receive help and the social treatment and cultural constructions which render them excluded; those who give help, whether professionals, relatives or volunteers; the relationship between helpers and the helped, particularly in its institutional forms; and suggests alternative approaches that may resolve the problematic aspects of these relationships.
Cultural representation of disabled people: dustbins for disavowal?
- Author:
- SHAKESPEARE Tom
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 9(3), 1994, pp.283-299.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Impairment and imagery are neglected within the social model approaches to disability. This is connected to a neglect of representation. Comparing the experience of disabled people to that of women, the author explores the prejudice underlying cultural representation, using a variety of theoretical models, and concludes by suggesting an explanation for popular prejudice against disabled people.