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Author Pothier, Dianne.

Title Critical Disability Theory : Essays in Philosophy, Politics, Policy and Law
Published Vancouver : UBC Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (352 pages)
Series Law and Society
Recht und Gesellschaft.
Contents ""Contents""; ""Figures and Tables""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction: Toward a Critical Theory of Dis-Citizenship""; ""Part 1: Setting the Context""; ""1 Disability Policy Making: Evaluating the Evidence Base""; ""Part 2: Conceptual Frameworks""; ""2 Does Theory Matter? Exploring the Nexus between Disability, Human Rights, and Public Policy""; ""3 Justice as Fairness in Accommodating Workers with Disabilities and Critical Theory: The Limitations of a Rawlsian Framework for Empowering People with Disabilities in Canada""; ""4 Multicultural Citizenship: The Case of the Disabled""
""10 Now You See Her, Now You Don't: How Law Shapes Disabled Women's Experience of Exposure, Surveillance, and Assessment in the Clinical Encounter""""11 Damage Quantification in Tort and Pre-Existing Conditions: Arguments for a Reconceptualization""; ""12 Beyond Compassion and Sympathy to Respect and Equality: Gendered Disability and Equality Rights Law""; ""13 Infertility and the Parameters of Discrimination Discourse""; ""Appendix: Legal Developments in the Supreme Court of Canada Regarding Disability""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""
""5 Ghosts in the Machine: Civil Rights Laws and the Hybrid ""Invisible Other""""""Part 3: Policy Analyses""; ""6 Working at the Margins: Disabled People and the Growth of Precarious Employment""; ""7 A Life without Living: Challenging Medical and Economic Reductionism in Home Support Policy for People with Disabilities""; ""8 Autism as Public Policy""; ""9 Post-Secondary Education and Disabled Students: Mining a Level Playing Field or Playing in a Minefield?""; ""Part 4: Legal Interrogations""
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Notes Print version record
Subject Disability studies -- Canada.
Discrimination against people with disabilities -- Canada.
People with disabilities -- Government policy -- Canada.
People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Canada.
People with disabilities -- Canada.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0774851694
9780774851695