Hello
Please can anyone help me. I'm just tidying up my phd and don't have a
citation for Croxen (1984). She criticised Wood for attempting to
de-politicise disability.
Cheers
Sonali
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From: Ozcan KONUR <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: 06 May 2002 18:49
Subject: General Medical Council case- research brief
>Research brief on the access to professional education and training by
>disabled students following the General Medical Council case
>
>Konur, O. (2002) Research brief on the access to professional education and
>training by disabled students following the General Medical Council case, 7
>May 2002, Version 1, 8,000 words (London, City University). [On-line]
>http://www.student.city.ac.uk/~cx639/gmc.htm.
>
>Abstract
>This paper aims to brief all the Players involved in enabling disabled
>students to have access to professional education in higher education about
>the landmark case of General Medical Council v. Cox (2002) EAT decided on
22
>March 2002 by the Employment Appeal Tribunal and its far-reaching
>implications for disabled students in higher education and professional
>education. The case is concerned with the access to medical education by a
>mobility-disabled student. The reasonable adjustments to the clinical
>training and academic assessment of Cox were not approved by the Education
>Committee of the General Medical Council (GMC) on the ground of a threat to
>the patients' safety. It was held by Mr. Justice Holland that GMC is a
>qualifying body and therefore it is exempt from the employment provisions
of
>the Disability Discrimination Act (1995). Thus it was found that exclusion
>of Cox from the medical education was lawful. The full text of the case is
>provided and case is summarised in an accessible format. Its implications
>are briefly discussed from an interdisciplinary context rather than the
mere
>legal approach with an indicative list of references. It is argued that
this
>case would affect access to professional education as well as to higher
>education at large by disabled students. Although a Bill is passing through
>the Parliament currently to extend the DDA to the 'qualifying bodies' and
>the Government intends to extend the DDA to these bodies by October 2004,
>higher education institutions would have defence of the Section 28S(6) and
>28S(7) reinforced by Mr. Justice Holland's reasoning that access to medical
>education by disabled students would constitute a threat to the public
>safety. This reasoning would be effective until is overruled by the
>legislation or by the Court of Appeal in the due course. In other words the
>exclusion of disabled students from higher education and professional
>training would continue to be lawful despite the implementation of the
SENDA
>(2001) starting from September 2002. It is argued in this brief that there
>is no proven causal relationship between access to medical education (as
>well as to any other professional education such as nursing education) and
>the safety of the clients they would serve upon their graduation. This
>contention is well supported by the close examination of the UK case law on
>the 'clinical negligence' by medical doctors, the research literature on
>access to medical education by disabled students, research on academic
>assessment of disabled students in higher education and in professional
>training among others. It is further argued that there is a need for the
>evidence-based public policy making on access to medical education,
>professional education and higher education at large rather than based on
>unsupported claims of 'threats to the public safety' as done in this case
>for example.
>
>Keywords: Disabled students, access to professional education, access to
>professional employment, access to higher education, General Medical
Council
>(GMC), Disability Discrimination Act (1995), Special Educational Needs and
>Disability Act (2001), General Medical Council v. Cox (2002) EAT, research,
>Graeme Catto, reasonable adjustments, reasonable academic assessment,
access
>to the curriculum, access to training, Disability Discrimination
(Amendment)
>Bill (2002), EU Employment Directive.
>
>
>________________________________
>Ozcan KONUR
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>W223), City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB, The United
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>Phone: 020 7040 0271
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