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Causing Disabled People to Exist and Causing People to Be Disabled
Ethics, 2005Attempts to determine or to select what kind of person or people to bring into existence are controversial. This is particularly true of “negative selection” or “selecting against” a certain type of person—that is, the attempt to prevent a person of a certain type, or people of that type, from existing.
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2005
Abstract This chapter describes how social injustice affects people with disabilities. It describes the interrelationships between disability, poverty, and inequality. It documents how access to healthcare and disability-specific resources adversely affects people with disabilities.
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Abstract This chapter describes how social injustice affects people with disabilities. It describes the interrelationships between disability, poverty, and inequality. It documents how access to healthcare and disability-specific resources adversely affects people with disabilities.
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Ergonomics, 1989
The paper aims at determining the workspace for disabled young people. The investigation embraced a group of young people with motor dysfunction of lower extremities. Seventeen measurements were taken of 32 boys and 45 girls aged 15-18. There are significant differences in functional dimensions of the arm between the healthy and the disabled ...
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The paper aims at determining the workspace for disabled young people. The investigation embraced a group of young people with motor dysfunction of lower extremities. Seventeen measurements were taken of 32 boys and 45 girls aged 15-18. There are significant differences in functional dimensions of the arm between the healthy and the disabled ...
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People with Intellectual Disabilities
2010What does it mean to have a good life? Why has it proved so difficult for people with intellectual disabilities to live one? This important book explores these questions, provides an analysis of related policies and underpinning ideologies and looks to how a good life may be made more attainable.
Johnson, K, Walmsley, J, Wolfe, M
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A policy by and for people with disability
Disability and Rehabilitation, 1993Disabled Persons Assembly (New Zealand) Inc. is the umbrella group and voice of people with disabilities in New Zealand. Formed from three groups in the early 1980s, it is unique in that the organization includes both individual and corporate members.
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Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, 2011
A survey of employers at 320 hospitality companies in the United States found a set of similar concerns and challenges regarding employment of persons with disabilities, although several of these issues are the result of lack of employer education. While small and medium-size companies had somewhat different issues than large companies, all firms had ...
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A survey of employers at 320 hospitality companies in the United States found a set of similar concerns and challenges regarding employment of persons with disabilities, although several of these issues are the result of lack of employer education. While small and medium-size companies had somewhat different issues than large companies, all firms had ...
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The importance of rehabilitation to disabled people
Journal of Medical Engineering & Technology, 1981To be asked to present the Casson Memorial Lecture is a great honour, and the title I have been given — “The Importance of Rehabilitation to Disabled People” — is an extremely interesting one, because it gives an opportunity to look at disability from a consumer's point of view rather than a professional one. E.F.
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Esports for People With Disabilities
Post-print / Final ...Hassan, Lobna +2 more
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2013
To what extent are people with disabilities fully included in economic, political and social life? People with disabilities have faced a long history of exclusion, stigma and discrimination, but have made impressive gains in the past several decades.
Lisa Schur, Douglas Kruse, Peter Blanck
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To what extent are people with disabilities fully included in economic, political and social life? People with disabilities have faced a long history of exclusion, stigma and discrimination, but have made impressive gains in the past several decades.
Lisa Schur, Douglas Kruse, Peter Blanck
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2015
Abstract This chapter addresses the developing field of disability in public health. Disability is traditionally associated with morbidity and mortality as negative public health outcomes. Primary prevention activities addressing birth defects, developmental disabilities, injuries, and chronic illnesses associated with disabling ...
Donald J. Lollar, Elena M. Andresen
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Abstract This chapter addresses the developing field of disability in public health. Disability is traditionally associated with morbidity and mortality as negative public health outcomes. Primary prevention activities addressing birth defects, developmental disabilities, injuries, and chronic illnesses associated with disabling ...
Donald J. Lollar, Elena M. Andresen
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