Title Critical disability theory : essays in philosophy, politics, policy, and law / edited by Dianne Pothier and Richard Devlin

Published Vancouver, B.C. : UBC Press, [2006] ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 336 pages) : illustrations Series Law and society series Law and society series (Vancouver, B.C.) Contents Introduction : Toward a critical theory of dis-citizenship / Richard Devlin and Dianne Pothier -- Disability policy making : evaluating the evidence base / Mary Ann McColl [and others] -- Does theory matter? Exploring the nexus between disability, human rights, and public policy / Marcia H. Rioux and Fraser Valentine -- Justice as fairness in accomodating workers with disabilities and critical theory : the limitations of a Rawlsian framework for empowering people with disabilities in Canada / Ravi A. Malhotra -- Multicultural citizenship : the case of the disabled / Theresa Man Ling Lee -- Ghosts in the machine : civil rights laws and the hybrid "invisible other" / Carolyn Tyjewski -- Working at the margins : disabled peope and the growth of precarious employment / Robert D. Wilson -- A life without living : challenging medical and economic reductionism in home support policy for people with disabilities / Kari Krogh and Jon Johnson -- Autism in public policy / Dana Lee Baker -- Post-secondary education and disabled students : mining a level playing field or playing in a minefield? / Teri Hibbs and Dianne Pothier -- Now you see her, now you don't : how law shapes disabled women's experience of exposure, surveillance, and assessment in the clinical encounter / Catherine Frazee, Joan Gilmour, and Roxanne Mykitiuk -- Damage quantification in tort and pre-existing conditions : arguments for a reconceptualization / Darcy L. MacPherson -- Beyond compassion and sympathy to respect and equality : gendered disability and equality rights law / Fiona Sampson -- Infertility and the parameters of discrimination discourse / Daphne Gilbert and Diana Majury -- Appendix : Legal developments in the Supreme Court of Canada regarding disability / Diannce Pothier Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject People with disabilities -- Canada People with disabilities -- Government policy -- Canada People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Canada Discrimination against people with disabilities -- Canada SOCIAL SCIENCE -- People with Disabilities. Discrimination against people with disabilities People with disabilities People with disabilities -- Government policy People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc. Behinderter Mensch Gesellschaft Diskriminierung Recht invalide -- Canada -- études diverses. handicapé -- Canada -- études diverses. Canada Kanada Form Electronic book Author Devlin, Richard F. (Richard Francis), 1960- editor. Pothier, Dianne, editor. ISBN 9780774812030 0774812036 9780774851695 0774851694 1282740784 9781282740785 9786612740787 6612740787

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