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The Eugenic transition of 1996 in Japan: from law to personal choice
- Author:
- MORITA Kazuyo
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 16(5), August 2001, pp.765-771.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The Eugenic Protection Law, which regulated sterilisation and abortion in Japan, had two aspects: one was to prevent the birth of people with specific diseases and impairments, and the other was to permit women to have an abortion for specified reasons. This law was criticised by both disabled people and feminists, and finally amended in 1996. Another eugenic practice related to both disabled people and women is prenatal screening. One prenatal diagnostic check, serum screening is a simple blood test carried out on the mother with little risk and no need for sophisticated techniques. It became very widespread in Japan around 1996 and was used with too little thought. As a result, it led to controversy. This paper discusses Japanese eugenics by reference to the Eugenic Protection Law and prenatal screening from the standpoint of both women and disabled people.
Disability in pregnancy and childbirth
- Editors:
- MCKAY-MOFFAT Stella, (ed.)
- Publisher:
- Churchill Livingstone
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 219p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. No other book advises midwives on the special needs of mothers with disabilities. Although an increasing number of women with disabilities are having children, the needs of this minority group are not always being effectively met. Disability in Pregnancy and Childbirth provides essential practical information to healthcare professionals working with this group. Contents include: social construction of disability and motherhood; women's health and disability; maternity services and women's experiences; the role of the midwife in maternity service provision; women with intellectual disabilities; midwives skills, knowledge and attitudes; sensory impairment; the interaction between specific conditions and the childbirth continuum.
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.
Genetics: a quest for perfection
- Author:
- CAPLAN Helen
- Journal article citation:
- Community Practitioner, 74(1), January 2001, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Community Practitioners' and Health Visitors' Association
The author discusses the choices facing pregnant women over screening and diagnostic tests and how these choices affect disabled people.
Women with physical disabilities: achieving and maintaining health and well-being
- Editors:
- KROTOSKI Danuta M., NOSEK Margaret A., TURK Margaret A.
- Publisher:
- Paul H. Brookes
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 501p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Baltimore, MD
Includes papers on: personal health experiences of women with disabilities; causes, risks and consequences of disability among women; black and minority ethnic disabled women; sexual response in women with complete spinal cord injury; sexuality; pregnancy; disabled lesbians; disabled mothers; stress; managing bladder and bowel function; and physical fitness and well being.
Getting the right start: the national service framework for children, young people and maternity services; emerging findings
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 50p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This NSF includes standards covering both health and social care services, and a key theme of this Emerging Findings document is the importance of integrated working between health and social care to support children who are disabled, who have mental health problems, or who are otherwise in special circumstances. For many children this joined-up working is essential to improving the quality of their lives and future life chances. The objective of this NSF is to improve the standard of services and reduce inequalities in care and support services. It provides a landmark in the development of services for children and young people and a real opportunity to give them, and pregnant women, the best start in life to prepare them for getting the most out of going to school, to deal with the problems which all children face during their childhood and, later, to take their place as active citizens in society.
Health, welfare and practice: reflecting on roles and relationships
- Editors:
- WALMSLEY Jan, et al
- Publisher:
- Sage/Open University
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 214p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Broad ranging text exploring key issues in the provision and use of caring services. Focuses on the roles and relationships between health and social welfare services. Includes chapters on: caring roles and caring relationships; the health service/social work divide; midwives and doctors on the labour ward; pregnancy and childbirth - a historical perspective; how the poor die (by George Orwell); feminist theory and strategy in social work; anti-racist curriculums in social work training; women clients and women social workers; violence against black women; men - the forgotten carers; older women; acquired hearing loss; new disability services; empowerment and oppression; an account of living on a children's ward; personal and medical memories from Hillsborough; group care; and establishing a feminist model of groupwork in the probation service.