Law, Rights and Disability
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Law, Rights and Disability

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
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Law, Rights and Disability

About this book

This comprehensive volume assesses the relationship between legal rights and disability and the effect of law, legal process and third party professional intervention on the lives of people with disabilities. Stressing the crucial role played by disabled people themselves in fulfilling the promise of the worldwide rights movement, the chapters examine this relationship across a variety of themes, stressing the legal elements of each issue, and the extent to which law can assist in strengthening individual rights in that area. The contributors, who are all either academics or other professional experts in their field, write in a jargon free accessible style. The volume will be of interest to lawyers, human rights activists, health care professionals and to disabled people generally.

The main areas covered in the volume are:

* new perspectives on working in partnership with disabled people;

* the changing attitudes to the rights of people with disabilities across the globe;

* improvements to the rights of disabled people through legal process, using national and international law;

* an examination of the rights and entitlement of disabled people to community care, housing, employment, education, and special services for children;

* disabled people and mental health law;

* messages from disability research for law, practice and reform implications for research.

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Information

Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Year
2000
Print ISBN
9781853028366
eBook ISBN
9781846421228
Topic
Law
Subtopic
Labour & Employment Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. COVER
  2. Law, Rights and Disability
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Preface
  6. CHAPTER ONE Working in Partnership with Disabled People: New Perspectives for Professionals Within the Social Model of Disability
  7. CHAPTER TWO Changing Attitudes to the Rights of People with Disabilities in Europe
  8. CHAPTER THREE Improving the Civil Rights of People with Disabilities Through International Law
  9. CHAPTER FOUR Improving the Civil Rights of People with Disabilities Through Domestic Law: A Global Overview
  10. CHAPTER FIVE The Legal Regulation of the Powers and Duties of Local Authorities with regard to Disabled People
  11. CHAPTER SIX The Disability Discrimination Act: An Overview
  12. CHAPTER SEVEN Disability, Housing and Homelessness
  13. CHAPTER EIGHT Disability and Mental Health Law
  14. CHAPTER NINE Disabled Children: (Still) Invisible Under the Law
  15. CHAPTER TEN Disabled Children and Social Care: Law and Practice
  16. CHAPTER ELEVEN Clear Voices for Change: Messages from Disability Research for Law, Policy and Practice
  17. The Contributors
  18. Subject Index
  19. Author Index