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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Shakespeare, Tom

Titel

The many worlds of disability

Ist Teil von

• The Lancet (British edition), 2021-12, Vol.398 (10316), p.2066-2066

Ort / Verlag

London: Elsevier Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Elsevier ScienceDirect Journals Complete

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The stories he relates are likely to represent the reality for many educated people in high-income countries with lived experience of disability who have stumbled, fallen, and wheeled through school, clinic, and workplace over recent decades. Grue studied and wrote in the USA at the University of California, Berkeley, a place which is part of the foundational story of disability rights, and he engages closely with the life and work of Mark O’Brien (1949–99), a US polio survivor, journalist, and poet, well known for his book How I Became a Human Being: A Disabled Man's Quest for Independence and from Ben Lewin's documentary The Sessions, which recounted O’Brien's engagement with a sex surrogate. Globally, people with disabilities routinely face discrimination, prejudice and other human rights violations.