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Disability, divers-ability, and legal change / edited by Melinda Jones and Lee Ann Basser Marks.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: International studies in human rights ; v. 56.Publisher: The Hague ; Boston : M. Nijhoff Publishers, [1999]Distributor: Cambridge, MA : sold and distributed in North, Central and South America by Kluwer Law International Copyright date: ©1999Description: xxiv, 400 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9041110860
  • 9789041110862
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 346.0138 21
LOC classification:
  • K637 .D574 1999
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Foreword -- About the Authors -- Pt. 1. Life: The Social Recognition & Definition of Disability -- 1. Law and the Social Construction of Disability -- 2. What Is a Disabled Person? -- 3. The Rule of Normalcy: Politics and Disability in the United States of Ability -- 4. Reflections on a Journey: Geographical Perspectives on Disability -- 5. Riding with the Man on the Escalator: Citizenship and Disability -- 6. Double Consciousness, Triple Difference: Disability, Race, Gender and the Politics of Recognition -- 7. Minority Rights or Universal Participation: The Politics of Disablement -- Pt. 2. Law: Legal Responses; Legislation, Constitutional Issues -- 8. The Standard Rules: A Weak Instrument and a Strong Commitment -- 9. The Office of the Disability Ombudsman in Sweden -- 10. The European Community's Response to Disability -- 11. From Social (In)Security to Equal Employment Opportunity - A Report from the Netherlands -- 12. The Canadian Framework for Disability Equality Rights -- 13. Disability, Rights and Law in Australia -- 14. From Welfare to Rights?: Disability and Legal Change in the United Kingdom in the Late 1990's -- 15. Toward Equality: The ADA's Accommodation of Differences -- Pt. 3. Life in Law: Specific Application of Law and Disability -- 16. From Healthism to Social Well-Being: Health-Related Human Rights of People with Disabilities -- 17. Bioethics, Disability and Death: Uncovering Cultural Bias in the Euthanasia Debate -- 18. Peeking through the Eyes of the Body: Regulating the Bodies of Women with Disabilities -- 19. A Long Road to Justice: Serial Abuse of People with Disabilities -- 20. People with an Intellectual Disability in the Criminal Justice System -- 21. Struggling with the Fabric of Disablement: Picking up the Threads of the Law and Education -- 22. Advocacy -- References.
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"ISHR 56"--P. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-386) and index.

Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Foreword -- About the Authors -- Pt. 1. Life: The Social Recognition & Definition of Disability -- 1. Law and the Social Construction of Disability -- 2. What Is a Disabled Person? -- 3. The Rule of Normalcy: Politics and Disability in the United States of Ability -- 4. Reflections on a Journey: Geographical Perspectives on Disability -- 5. Riding with the Man on the Escalator: Citizenship and Disability -- 6. Double Consciousness, Triple Difference: Disability, Race, Gender and the Politics of Recognition -- 7. Minority Rights or Universal Participation: The Politics of Disablement -- Pt. 2. Law: Legal Responses; Legislation, Constitutional Issues -- 8. The Standard Rules: A Weak Instrument and a Strong Commitment -- 9. The Office of the Disability Ombudsman in Sweden -- 10. The European Community's Response to Disability -- 11. From Social (In)Security to Equal Employment Opportunity - A Report from the Netherlands -- 12. The Canadian Framework for Disability Equality Rights -- 13. Disability, Rights and Law in Australia -- 14. From Welfare to Rights?: Disability and Legal Change in the United Kingdom in the Late 1990's -- 15. Toward Equality: The ADA's Accommodation of Differences -- Pt. 3. Life in Law: Specific Application of Law and Disability -- 16. From Healthism to Social Well-Being: Health-Related Human Rights of People with Disabilities -- 17. Bioethics, Disability and Death: Uncovering Cultural Bias in the Euthanasia Debate -- 18. Peeking through the Eyes of the Body: Regulating the Bodies of Women with Disabilities -- 19. A Long Road to Justice: Serial Abuse of People with Disabilities -- 20. People with an Intellectual Disability in the Criminal Justice System -- 21. Struggling with the Fabric of Disablement: Picking up the Threads of the Law and Education -- 22. Advocacy -- References.

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