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Disability rights / edited by Peter Blanck.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: International library of essays on rightsPublisher: Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub, 2005Description: xxxii, 548 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0754624528
  • 9780754624523
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 342.087 22
LOC classification:
  • K637 .D576 2005
Contents:
Foreword / Christopher McCrudden -- 1. Before disability civil rights : Civil War pensions and the politics of disability in America / Peter David Blanck and Michael Millender -- 2. Disability policy and politics : considering consumer influences / Paul K. Longmore -- 3. Disability studies : a historical materialist view / B. J. Gleeson -- 4. The politics of disability / Mike Oliver -- 5. Uncle Tom and Tiny Tim : some reflections on the cripple as Negro / Leonard Kriegel -- 6. International disability law - a new legal subject on the rise : the interregional experts / Theresia Degener -- 7. The development of the disability rights movement as a social problem solver / Jerry Alan Winter -- 8. Reassessing the employment of people with disabilities in Europe : from quotas to anti-discrimination laws / Lisa Waddington -- 9. The Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (CTH) : a three-dimensional approach to operationalising human rights / Lee Ann Basser and Melinda Jones -- 10. The ADA on the road : disability rights in Germany / Katharina C. Heyer -- 11. The disability rights movement in Japan : past, present, and future / Reiko Hayashi and Masako Okuhira -- 12. Disability rights in Latin America and international cooperation / Christian Courtis -- 13. Changing the social relations of research production? / Mike Oliver -- 14. Disability and the myth of the independent researcher / Colin Barnes -- 15. Disability and the myth of the independent researcher : a reply / Mike Bury -- 16. Rules of engagement : doing disability research / Tom Shakespeare -- 17. Antidiscrimination laws and social research on disability : the minority group perspective / Harlan Hahn -- 18. Empirical implications of Title I / Michael Ashley Stein -- 19. Calibrating the impact of the ADA's employment provisions / Peter Blanck, Lisa Schur, Douglas Kruse, Susan Schwochau and Chen Song -- 20. Does a needs-led delivery of services undermine disability discrimination principles? / Jerome Bickenbach and Jeremy Cooper -- 21. Defending the social model / Tom Shakespeare and Nicholas Watson -- 22. Critical race theory, feminism, and disability : reflections on social justice and personal identity / Adrienne Asch -- 23. Towards a concept of equality of well-being : overcoming the social and legal construction of inequality / Marcia H. Rioux -- 24. The globalization of disability rights law / Arlene S. Kanter -- 25. Closing : next steps - towards a United Nations treaty on the rights of persons with disabilities / Gerard Quinn.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Christopher McCrudden -- 1. Before disability civil rights : Civil War pensions and the politics of disability in America / Peter David Blanck and Michael Millender -- 2. Disability policy and politics : considering consumer influences / Paul K. Longmore -- 3. Disability studies : a historical materialist view / B. J. Gleeson -- 4. The politics of disability / Mike Oliver -- 5. Uncle Tom and Tiny Tim : some reflections on the cripple as Negro / Leonard Kriegel -- 6. International disability law - a new legal subject on the rise : the interregional experts / Theresia Degener -- 7. The development of the disability rights movement as a social problem solver / Jerry Alan Winter -- 8. Reassessing the employment of people with disabilities in Europe : from quotas to anti-discrimination laws / Lisa Waddington -- 9. The Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (CTH) : a three-dimensional approach to operationalising human rights / Lee Ann Basser and Melinda Jones -- 10. The ADA on the road : disability rights in Germany / Katharina C. Heyer -- 11. The disability rights movement in Japan : past, present, and future / Reiko Hayashi and Masako Okuhira -- 12. Disability rights in Latin America and international cooperation / Christian Courtis -- 13. Changing the social relations of research production? / Mike Oliver -- 14. Disability and the myth of the independent researcher / Colin Barnes -- 15. Disability and the myth of the independent researcher : a reply / Mike Bury -- 16. Rules of engagement : doing disability research / Tom Shakespeare -- 17. Antidiscrimination laws and social research on disability : the minority group perspective / Harlan Hahn -- 18. Empirical implications of Title I / Michael Ashley Stein -- 19. Calibrating the impact of the ADA's employment provisions / Peter Blanck, Lisa Schur, Douglas Kruse, Susan Schwochau and Chen Song -- 20. Does a needs-led delivery of services undermine disability discrimination principles? / Jerome Bickenbach and Jeremy Cooper -- 21. Defending the social model / Tom Shakespeare and Nicholas Watson -- 22. Critical race theory, feminism, and disability : reflections on social justice and personal identity / Adrienne Asch -- 23. Towards a concept of equality of well-being : overcoming the social and legal construction of inequality / Marcia H. Rioux -- 24. The globalization of disability rights law / Arlene S. Kanter -- 25. Closing : next steps - towards a United Nations treaty on the rights of persons with disabilities / Gerard Quinn.

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