Dear all,
Disability and health are uncomfortable bed fellows.
Disabled people have struggled for decades in getting out from under the medical gaze: seeing disability as a defect, to be cured, and perhaps discarded. And just now that people with disabilities appear to be arriving as a recognised oppressed minority, acquiring rights at a rate of knots, for greater choice and autonomy, greater access to community life, the issue of health disparities between them and the rest of the population is back to bite them.
Disabled people have struggled for decades in getting out from under the medical gaze: seeing disability as a defect, to be cured, and perhaps discarded. And just now that people with disabilities appear to be arriving as a recognised oppressed minority, acquiring rights at a rate of knots, for greater choice and autonomy, greater access to community life, the issue of health disparities between them and the rest of the population is back to bite them.
... a companion blog to a new discussion group on disability and health. You can join it here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/disabilityandhealth/join
Regards,
Erik
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