Stories
- Article
Performing my disability
Caroline Butterwick explores the idea of disability as performative, and the pressure to act out what we think others expect.
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Disability, education and prejudice
In the 1960s and 1970s, thalidomide survivors had to fight for a proper education. If they weren’t brought up in institutions, they were often viewed as objects of curiosity, encountering verbal and sometimes physical abuse, both at school and in the world beyond.
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How hospital care fails disabled bodies
Hospitals aim to make sick people well. But if the sick person is also disabled, the unbending nature of monolithic hospital systems can easily worsen the situation. Here Jamie Hale writes from painful personal experience.
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Disability in the post-pandemic world
Disabled people have suffered more than most during Covid-19, but there is still a chance to build a kinder society. Dolly Sen explores whether we will come together, or allow more brutal disparities to develop in the worsening recession.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Disabled Persons Act: Medical interviewing committee.
Date: 1947-1951Reference: SA/BMA/C.167Part of: British Medical Association- Books
Disabled Persons (Employment) Act, 1958 : 6 & 7 Eliz. 2. Ch. 33.
Great Britain.Date: 1958]- Books
Disabled Persons (Employment) Act, 1944 : 7 & 8 Geo. 6. Ch. 10.
Great Britain.Date: 1944]- Archives and manuscripts
Handicapped (Disabled) Persons) I
Date: 1960-1969Reference: SA/CMO/D/95Part of: Association of County Medical Officers of Health and the County Medical Officers Group of the Society of Medical Officers of Health- Archives and manuscripts
Handicapped (Disabled Persons) II
Date: 1970-1972Reference: SA/CMO/D/96Part of: Association of County Medical Officers of Health and the County Medical Officers Group of the Society of Medical Officers of Health