(IN) Equality, (AB) Normality, and The Americans With Disabilities Act  

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Silvers, Anita

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy vol. 21 no. 2 (Apr. 1996), page 209-224.
Topik: Caring; Disability; Equality; Ethics; Health Care Policy

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: MM80.5 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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The 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act enacted a conceptual shift in the meaning of 'disability'. Rather than defining 'disability' as a disadvantageous physical or mental deficit of persons, it codifies the understanding of 'disability' as a defective state society which disadvantages these persons. In as biologically inferior, and thus confines them to the role of recipients of benevolence or care. Turning to an ethic of caring yields counter-intuitive results that conflict with the conceptual apparatus of the ADA. It is argued that in order to liberate social thought from this medical model and thus move the disabled from being socially maginalized to being socially marginalized to being socially enabled, one must-reconceptaulize current practice by adopting the ADA's conceptual framework.

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