Disability Rights

Peter Blanck, University Professor and Chairman, Burton Blatt Institute, Syracuse University, USA

• Contents: Foreword, Christopher McCrudden; Introduction. Rise of Disability Rights: Before disability rights: civil war pensions and the politics of disability in America, Peter David Blanck and Michael Millender; Disability policy and politics: considering consumer influences, Paul K. Longmore; Disability studies: a historical materialist view, B.J. Gleeson; The politics of disability, Mike Oliver; Uncle Tom and Tiny Tim: some reflections on the cripple as negro, Leonard Kriegel . Law of Disability Rights: International disability law - a new legal subject on the rise: the interregional experts' meeting in Hong Kong, December 13-17, 1999, Theresia Degener; The development of the disability rights movement as a social problem solver, Jerry Alan Winter; Reassessing the employment of people with disabilities in Europe: from quotas to anti-discrimination laws, Lisa Waddington; The Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (CTH): a 3-dimensional approach to operationalizing human rights, Lee Ann Basser and Melinda Jones; The ADA on the road: disability rights in Germany, Katharina C. Heyer The disability rights movement in Japan: past, present and future, Reiko Hayashi and Masako Okuhira; Disability rights in Latin America and international cooperation, Christian Courtis. Assessment of Disability Rights: Changing the social relations of research production, Mike Oliver; Disability and the myth of the independent researcher, Colin Barnes; Rules of engagement: doing disability research, Tom Shakespeare; Anti-discrimination laws and social research on disability: the minority group perspectives, Harlan Hahn; Empirical implications of Title I, Michael Ashley Stein; Calibrating the impact of the ADA's employment provisions, Peter Blanck, Lisa Schur, Douglas Kruse, Susan Schwochau and Chen Song); Does a needs-led delivery of services undermine disability discrimination principles?, Jerome Bickenbach and Jeremy Cooper. Future of Disability Rights: Defending the social model, Tom Sh