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Critical disability theory : essays in philosophy, politics, policy, and law / edited by Dianne Pothier and Richard Devlin.
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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
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Other Contributors/Collections:Devlin, Richard F. (Richard Francis), 1960-
Pothier, Dianne.
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Published/Created:Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2006.
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Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
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Call Number: HV1559.C3 C747 2006
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Where is this?
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Call Number: HV1559.C3 C747 2006
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
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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.
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Description:viii, 336 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Series:Law and society series (Vancouver, B.C.)
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN:9780774812030 (isbn-13) :
0774812036 (isbn-10):
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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.