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Debating disability

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Tom Shakespeare

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Abstract

This paper responds to the reviews by Edwards, Holm, Koch, Thomas and Vehmas of Disability Rights and Wrongs (2006). After summarising the recent history of disability studies as a discipline, it explores: the political nature of disability research, questions of ontology and definition, and the uses and abuses of the expressivist argument. Disability is an emerging field of enquiry and constructive debate is to be welcomed.

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Author(s): Shakespeare TW

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Journal of Medical Ethics

Year: 2008

Volume: 34

Issue: 1

Pages: 11-14

Date deposited: 20/05/2010

ISSN (print): 0306-6800

ISSN (electronic): 1473-4257

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jme.2006.019992

DOI: 10.1136/jme.2006.019992

PubMed id: 18156512

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