Finding Disability in Everyday Life
This commentary explicates the social and cultural work of the word “disability” by reviewing the history of the civil and human rights movements and of legislation establishing people with disabilities as a social group protected from discrimination and entitled to the right to request reasonable a...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
The Hastings Center report
Year: 2025, Volume: 55, Issue: 3, Pages: 1 |
| Further subjects: | B
Disability
B Human Rights B Civil Rights B Bioethics B Flourishing B Built environment |
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| Summary: | This commentary explicates the social and cultural work of the word “disability” by reviewing the history of the civil and human rights movements and of legislation establishing people with disabilities as a social group protected from discrimination and entitled to the right to request reasonable accommodations—a legislative initiative that has shifted “disability” from a predominantly medical label to a social and political identity. |
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| ISSN: | 1552-146X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Hastings Center, The Hastings Center report
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1002/hast.5006 |
