Stories on disability
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Features
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Starfish and seeing hands
Decades of war and disruption have left rural communities in Cambodia with a legacy of disease and disability. Geof Rayner reports on projects that are helping disabled people to help each other and earn a living
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If you tolerate this, your children will be next
Whatever geneticists good intentions, the application of their research could result in eugenic policies against disabled people, argues Bill Albert
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A rose by any other name…
The first barrier to achieving equality for disabled people is not understanding where the disability comes from, says Lorraine Gradwell
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New party, old agenda?
Labour has underestimated the political significance of the disability movement, argues David Pilgrim
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Living is about more than bed and breakfast
Being able to do what other people do after they have got up is what independent living is all about, Frances Hasler explains
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A disability is taxing enough
Welfare reform should be concentrating on increasing
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Breaking down barriers
David Ackroyd and Judith Emanuel share their experiences in developing and consulting on accessibility guidelines for the NHS
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A harder walk to freedom
Emerging from the apartheid era, South Africa is a country which takes equal rights very seriously indeed. Shelley Barry and Sue Philpott explain how its disability strategy has become a model for the world
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If not this time, then next time
The government’s belated response to the demands of people with disabilities is half-hearted and inadequate, argues Dougie Herd
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Different ways to be
Being a woman with a disability may mean not living up to other people’s images of perfection — or your own. Mandy Garner reports
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Dangerous, disorderly and deviant — or just disabled?
Policy towards people with a learning disability has been marked by deep ambivalence. David Barker looks back on the ‘colonies’ for the ‘mentally defective’
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Equal quality people
No longer will people with learning disabilities allow others to speak for them. They have found a voice. Co-workers from Advocacy in Action explain
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Fighting for the rights of the ‘heroes’
The battle is never over for those thousands of people — civilian and military alike — disabled by war. And in modern conflict, creating disability is all part of the strategy, says Ann Darnbrough
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Interview
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One minute interview
Richard Holmes is policy officer for Disability Alliance
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Columns
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Where are all the beds?
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We must raise the disability threshold
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Eugenic sterilisation: Europe’s shame
Eugenic ideas were promoted across much of Europe during the 1920s and 1930s, with forcible sterilisation of the ‘unfit’ a constant demand of the eugenicists. Charles Webster reports on a troubled period in our history
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News
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Reviews
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A Right Result? Advocacy, justice and empowerment
Rick Henderson and Mike Pochin
The Policy Press, 2001. £15.99 -
Services all inclusive? inclusive?
STIGMA AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION IN HEALTHCARE
Tom Mason, Caroline Carlisle, Caroline Watkins, Elizabeth Whitehead (eds)
Routledge, 2001, £16.99 -
What’s gone wrong with health care? Alison Hill (ed) King’s Fund, 2001. £14.99
DISABLED PEOPLE AND EMPLOYMENT
Sally French
Ashgate Publishing , 2001, £39.95 -
Simplicity for complex problems
UNLOCKING THE FUTURE: Developing new lifestyles with people who have complex disabilities
Barbara McIntosh and Andrea Whittaker (eds)
King’s Fund, 2000, £15.99 -
Move from principles to practice
SELF-ADVOCACY IN THE LIVES OF PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES: the politics of resilience
Dan Goodley
Open University Press, 2000, £18.99 -
Fair treatment please
Ethnicity, Disability and Chronic Illness
Waqar I U Ahmad (ed)
Open University Press, £18.99 -
Maternal mediators
DISABILITY, THE FAMILY AND SOCIETY
Janet Read
Open University Press -
Why experience counts
FEMALE FORMS: Experiencing and understanding disability
Carol Thomas
Open University Press 1999, £16.99 -
New tech, old attitudes
ENABLING TECHNOLOGY: disabled people, work and new technology
Alan Roulestone
Open University Press, 1998, £14.99 -
Stuff your attitudes
BIGGER THAN THE SKY: disabled women on parenting
Michele Wates and Rowen Jade (eds)
The Women’s Press, 1999, £8.99 -
Heroines just say no
Disabled Parents: Dispelling the Myths
Michele Wates
Radcliffe Medical Press Ltd, 1997 -
Disabled voices, still alive
FIGHTING FOR WHAT WE’VE GOT: living with disability in Kirklees
Ian Clayton (ed)
Yorkshire Arts Circus, 1996, £5.95 -
Stories worth hearing
LIVES WORTH LIVING: women’s experience of chronic illness
Veronica Marris
Pandora Press, 1996 -
Stop feeling sorry
Encounters with Strangers: Feminism and Disability
Jenny Morris (ed)
The Women’s Press, 1996, £8.99 -
A more able label required
HALLAS’ CARING FOR PEOPLE WITH MENTAL HANDICAPS
ed WI Fraser, RC MacGillivray and Ann M Green,
Butterworth-Heinemann, 1991
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Letters
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Editorial
