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The Law's Understanding of Intellectual Disability As a Disability

Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2013
Intellectual disability (ID) is differently yet validly described by different professions. Legal professionals find it most useful to consider ID as a disability rather than a disorder. Because the law regulates the actions of individuals in a society and the actions of society on an individual, the law's concern in dealing with a person with ID is ...
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Disabling disability amid competing ideologies

Journal of Medical Ethics, 2017
This paper critiques current arguments advancing the potential for transhumanism and a range of biological and pharmacological enhancements to better human flourishing. It does so from a historical perspective weighing the individualistic and competitive evolutionary theories of Darwin with the cooperative and communal theories of Prince Peter ...
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The Demographics of Disability

The Milbank Quarterly, 1991
In this article, I have attempted to clarify some of the disparate estimates and ways of measuring disability that have been used in different surveys. The definitional issue has implications for the size of the population that will be covered by the ADA.
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Disability in Epileptics

Epilepsia, 1972
SUMMARYThe purpose of this paper was to investigate how many epileptics had a diminished capacity to work in proportion to patients suffering from other neurological and psychiatric illnesses, and the degree of disability in this illness as compared to others.The data was obtained from the two Expert Commissions on Disability (from Novi Sad and ...
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Explicit and implicit: Ableism of disability professionals

Disability and Health Journal, 2023
Carli Friedman
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A Disabled Disability Movement:

2022
Muyinda, Herbert, Whyte, Susan Reynolds
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Disability Studies/Disability Culture

2013
Abstract This chapter addresses three primary questions: What is disability culture? What is disability studies? How do these two interact? Disability culture is explored as a movement “from the inside out,” one focused on issues of choice, power, language, and identity/community.
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A disability not disabled

American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, 2001
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Disability not Disablement

BMJ, 1945
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DISABILITY AND DISABLEMENT THE MEDICAL ASPECT

The Lancet, 1946
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