Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series – serie
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46 produkter
Bioethics and Disability
Toward a Disability-Conscious Bioethics
Inbunden, 2011
1813 kr
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Bioethics and Disability provides tools for understanding the concerns, fears and biases that have convinced some people with disabilities that the health care setting is a dangerous place and some bioethicists that disability activists have nothing to offer bioethics. It wrestles with the charge …
Disability and Information Technology
A Comparative Study in Media Regulation
Av Eliza Varney
Inbunden, 2013
1107 kr
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Disability and Information Technology examines the extent to which regulatory frameworks for information and communication technologies (ICTs) safeguard the rights of persons with disabilities as citizenship rights. It adopts a comparative approach focused on four case studies: Canada, the European …
Land Use Law and Disability
Planning and Zoning for Accessible Communities
Inbunden, 2014
1648 kr
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In Land Use Law and Disability, Robin Paul Malloy argues that our communities need better planning to be safely and easily navigated by people with mobility impairment and to facilitate intergenerational aging in place. To achieve this, communities will need to think of mobility impairment and …
Race, Ethnicity, and Disability
Veterans and Benefits in Post-Civil War America
Av Larry M. Logue, Peter Blanck
Inbunden, 2010
913 kr
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Using data from more than 40,000 soldiers of the Union army, this book focuses on the experience of African Americans and immigrants with disabilities, investigating their decision to seek government assistance and their resulting treatment. Pension administrators treated these ex-soldiers …
When is Separate Unequal?
A Disability Perspective
Av Ruth Colker
Häftad, 2008
493 kr
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This book does not start from the premise that separate is inherently unequal. Writing from an 'anti-subordination perspective', Professor Colker provides a framework for the courts and society to consider what programs or policies are most likely to lead to substantive equality for individuals …
Perfecting Pregnancy
Law, Disability, and the Future of Reproduction
Av Isabel Karpin, Kristin Savell
Häftad, 2014
600 kr
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Prenatal and preimplantation testing technologies have offered unprecedented access to information about the genetic and congenital makeup of our prospective progeny. Future developments such as preconception testing, non-intrusive prenatal testing and more extensive preimplantation testing promise …
Perfecting Pregnancy
Law, Disability, and the Future of Reproduction
Av Isabel Karpin, Kristin Savell
Inbunden, 2012
1715 kr
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Prenatal and preimplantation testing technologies have offered unprecedented access to information about the genetic and congenital makeup of our prospective progeny. Future developments such as preconception testing, non-intrusive prenatal testing and more extensive preimplantation testing promise …
When is Separate Unequal?
A Disability Perspective
Av Ruth Colker
Inbunden, 2008
928 kr
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This book does not start from the premise that separate is inherently unequal. Writing from an 'anti-subordination perspective', Professor Colker provides a framework for the courts and society to consider what programs or policies are most likely to lead to substantive equality for individuals …
People with Disabilities
Sidelined or Mainstreamed?
Av Lisa Schur, Douglas Kruse m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
1648 kr
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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. These gains include the passage of major civil …
Making Rights a Reality?
Disability Rights Activists and Legal Mobilization
Av Lisa Vanhala
Inbunden, 2010
1588 kr
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Making Rights a Reality? explores the way in which disability activists in the United Kingdom and Canada have transformed their aspirations into legal claims in their quest for equality. It unpacks shifting conceptualizations of the political identity of disability and the role of a rights …
From Rhetoric to Action
Implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Inbunden, 2011
1386 kr
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This book contains a global comparative study of implementation and monitoring mechanisms for national disability strategies. It comprises a comparative study that was conducted at international, regional and comparative country levels and that highlights critical success factors in implementing …
Social Inclusion of People with Disabilities
National and International Perspectives
Inbunden, 2012
1753 kr
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Social inclusion is often used interchangeably with the terms social cohesion, social integration and social participation, positioning social exclusion as the opposite. The latter is a contested term that refers to a wide range of phenomena and processes related to poverty and deprivation, but it …
Family Policy and Disability
Inbunden, 2015
1648 kr
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This book explores the status and scope of family policies related to households of children with disabilities, providing an in-depth, evidence-based review of legal, programmatic issues. It includes a discussion of the gaps between family needs and contemporary family policies in the United States …
eQuality
The Struggle for Web Accessibility by Persons with Cognitive Disabilities
Av Peter Blanck
Inbunden, 2014
1513 kr
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Never before have the civil rights of people with disabilities aligned so well with developments in information and communication technology. The center of the technology revolution is the Internet, which fosters unprecedented opportunities for engagement in democratic society. The Americans with …
Discrimination, Copyright and Equality
Opening the e-Book for the Print-Disabled
Av Paul Harpur
Inbunden, 2017
1195 kr
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While equality laws operate to enable access to information, these laws have limited power over the overriding impact of market forces and copyright laws that focus on restricting access to information. Technology now creates opportunities for everyone in the world, regardless of their abilities or …
The Right to Inclusive Education in International Human Rights Law
Av Gauthier de Beco, Shivaun Quinlivan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2217 kr
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Education is a fundamental human right that is recognised as essential for the attainment of all civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. It was not until 2006, on the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), that the right to inclusive …
Genetics, Disability and the Law
Towards an EU Legal Framework
Inbunden, 2017
1588 kr
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While advances in science and technology bring many advantages, we must not ignore the harm that they can cause. Rapid changes in genetic testing are a prime example, and indicators can now help to detect, address and treat diseases. However, in this new study, Aisling de Paor examines how genetic …
Heavy Laden
Union Veterans, Psychological Illness, and Suicide
Av Larry M. Logue, Peter Blanck
Inbunden, 2018
1505 kr
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The psychological aftereffects of war are not just a modern-day plight. Following the Civil War, numerous soldiers returned with damaged bodies or damaged minds. Drawing on archival materials including digitized records for more than 70,000 white and African-American Union army recruits, newspaper …
Disability and Community Living Policies
Inbunden, 2017
1428 kr
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This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the roots of institutionalization, deinstitutionalization legislation and policies of the twentieth century, and twenty-first-century efforts to promote community living policies domestically and internationally, particularly through the role of the …
A New Era for Mental Health Law and Policy
Supported Decision-Making and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Inbunden, 2017
1586 kr
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The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) has generated new ideas and standards in healthcare and disability law and policy. In the mental health context, the CRPD directs governments to ensure people with mental impairments are treated equally before the law, including …
Restoring Voice to People with Cognitive Disabilities
Realizing the Right to Equal Recognition before the Law
Inbunden, 2017
1686 kr
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The right to make decisions is important for every individual. It allows us to express ourselves, discover our likes and dislikes, and lead our lives in the way we desire. People with cognitive disability have historically been denied this right in many different ways - sometimes informally by …
The Disabled Contract
Severe Intellectual Disability, Justice and Morality
Av Jonas-Sébastien Beaudry
Inbunden, 2021
1753 kr
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Social contract theories generally predicate the authority of rules that govern society on the idea that these rules are the product of a contractual agreement struck between members of society. These theories embody values, such as equality, reciprocity and rationality, that are highly prized …
Social Inclusion of People with Disabilities
National and International Perspectives
Häftad, 2014
605 kr
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Social inclusion is often used interchangeably with the terms social cohesion, social integration and social participation, positioning social exclusion as the opposite. The latter is a contested term that refers to a wide range of phenomena and processes related to poverty and deprivation, but it …
People with Disabilities
Sidelined or Mainstreamed?
Av Lisa Schur, Douglas Kruse m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
523 kr
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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. These gains include the passage of major civil …
Disability and Information Technology
A Comparative Study in Media Regulation
Av Eliza Varney
Häftad, 2015
569 kr
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Disability and Information Technology examines the extent to which regulatory frameworks for information and communication technologies (ICTs) safeguard the rights of persons with disabilities as citizenship rights. It adopts a comparative approach focused on four case studies: Canada, the European …
Discrimination, Copyright and Equality
Opening the e-Book for the Print-Disabled
Av Paul Harpur
Häftad, 2018
667 kr
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While equality laws operate to enable access to information, these laws have limited power over the overriding impact of market forces and copyright laws that focus on restricting access to information. Technology now creates opportunities for everyone in the world, regardless of their abilities or …
Disability and the Good Human Life
Av Jerome E. Bickenbach, Franziska Felder m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
523 kr
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This collection of original essays, from both established scholars and newcomers, takes up a recent debate in philosophy, sociology, and disability studies on whether disability is intrinsically a harm that lowers a person's quality of life. While this is a new question in disability scholarship, …
The Right to Inclusive Education in International Human Rights Law
Av Gauthier de Beco, Shivaun Quinlivan m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
553 kr
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Education is a fundamental human right that is recognised as essential for the attainment of all civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. It was not until 2006, on the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), that the right to inclusive …
Genetics, Disability and the Law
Towards an EU Legal Framework
Häftad, 2018
512 kr
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While advances in science and technology bring many advantages, we must not ignore the harm that they can cause. Rapid changes in genetic testing are a prime example, and indicators can now help to detect, address and treat diseases. However, in this new study, Aisling de Paor examines how genetic …
Heavy Laden
Union Veterans, Psychological Illness, and Suicide
Av Larry M. Logue, Peter Blanck
Häftad, 2019
574 kr
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The psychological aftereffects of war are not just a modern-day plight. Following the Civil War, numerous soldiers returned with damaged bodies or damaged minds. Drawing on archival materials including digitized records for more than 70,000 white and African-American Union army recruits, newspaper …
