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    Critical disability theory : essays in philosophy, politics, policy, and law / edited by Dianne Pothier and Richard Devlin.

    • Title:Critical disability theory : essays in philosophy, politics, policy, and law / edited by Dianne Pothier and Richard Devlin.
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    • Variant Title:Disability
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Devlin, Richard F. (Richard Francis), 1960-
      Pothier, Dianne.
    • Published/Created:Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2006.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:People with disabilities--Government policy.
      People with disabilities--Legal status, laws, etc.
      Discrimination against people with disabilities.
    • Description:viii, 336 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
    • Series:Law and society series (Vancouver, B.C.)
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780774812030 (isbn-13) :
      0774812036 (isbn-10):
    • Contents:Introduction : toward a critical theory of dis-citizenship / Richard Devlin and Dianne Pothier
      1. Disability policy making : evaluating the evidence base / Mary Ann McColl, Alison James, William Boyce and Sam Shortt
      2. Does theory matter? : exploring the nexus between disability, human rights, and public policy / Marcia H. Rioux and Fraser Valentine
      3. Justice as fairness in accommodating workers with disabilities and critical theory : the limitations of a Rawlsian framework for empowering people with disabilities in Canada / Ravi A. Malhotra
      4. Multicultural citizenship : the case of the disabled / Theresa Man Ling Lee
      5. Ghosts in the machine : civil rights laws and the hybrid "invisible other" / Carolyn Tyjewski
      6. Working at the margins : disabled people and the growth of precarious employment / Robert D. Wilton
      7. life without living : challenging medical and economic reductionism in home support policy for people with disabilities / Kari Krogh and Jon Johnson
      8. Autism as public policy / Dana Lee Baker
      9. Post-secondary education and disabled students : mining a level playing field or playing in a minefield? / Teri Hibbs and Dianne Pothier
      10. 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
      11. Damage quantification in tort and pre-existing conditions : arguments for a reconceptualization / Darcy L. MacPherson
      12. Beyond compassion and sympathy to respect and equality : gendered disability and equality rights law / Fiona Sampson
      13. Infertility and the parameters of discrimination discourse / Daphne Gilbert and Diana Majury
      App. Legal developments in the Supreme Court of Canada regarding disability / Dianne Pothier.
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