TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pothier,Dianne
AU  - Devlin,Richard F.
TI  - Critical disability theory: essays in philosophy, politics, policy, and law
T2  - Law and society series
SN  - 0774812044
U1  - 362.4 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Vancouver, BC
PB  - UBC Press
KW  - People with disabilities
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Canada
KW  - Local
KW  - Discrimination against people with disabilities
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : Toward a critical theory of dis-citizenship; Richard Devlin and Dianne Pothier --; Disability policy making : evaluating the evidence base; Mary Ann McColl ... [et al.] --; Does theory matter? Exploring the nexus between disability, human rights, and public policy; Marcia H. Rioux and Fraser Valentine --; Justice as fairness in accomodating workers with disabilities and critical theory : the limitations of a Rawlsian framework for empowering people with disabilities in Canada; Ravi A. Malhotra --; Multicultural citizenship : the case of the disabled; Theresa Man Ling Lee --; Ghosts in the machine : civil rights laws and the hybrid "invisible other"; Carolyn Tyjewski --; Working at the margins : disabled peope and the growth of precarious employment; Robert D. Wilson --; A; life without living : challenging medical and economic reductionism in home support policy for people with disabilities; Kari Krogh and Jon Johnson --; Autism in public policy; Dana Lee Baker --; Post-secondary education and disabled students : mining a level playing field or playing in a minefield?; Teri Hibbs and Dianne Pothier --; Now you see her, now you don't : how law shapes disabled women's experience of exposure, surveillance, and assessment in the clinical encounter; Catherine Frazee, Joan Gilmour, and Roxanne Mykitiuk --; Damage quantification in tort and pre-existing conditions : arguments for a reconceptualization; Darcy L. MacPherson --; Beyond compassion and sympathy to respect and equality : gendered disability and equality rights law; Fiona Sampson --; Infertility and the parameters of discrimination discourse; Daphne Gilbert and Diana Majury --; Appendix : Legal developments in the Supreme Court of Canada regarding disability; Diannce Pothier
ER  -