This is better, I understand what you mean Shelley, So you are suggesting
that it should read:
CD and pdf. also available, for who ever choose that format?
Maria
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shelley Lynn Tremain" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 10:05 AM
Subject: Re: new book
> Gregor,
>
> I agree with you. I would argue however that there was no need to state
> anything about so-called "impairments" UNLESS the editors endorse a view
of
> impairment as Other, as "abnormal," "special," etc. What proponents of
the
> social model fail to understand is that disability *precedes* the idea of
> impairment, an idea which provides the justification for the
multiplication
> and expansion of the productive, regulatory, and constraining effects of
> disabling power.
>
> S.L. Tremain
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gregor Wolbring" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: "Shelley Lynn Tremain" <[log in to unmask]>
> Cc: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 9:44 AM
> Subject: Re: new book
>
>
>
> well I find the use of the term impairment in the PR unfortunate as this
> seems to show that the editors buy into the ability norms set by certain
> structures groups within society.
> It would have been better to use a term which does not imply a deficiency
> and even better a term which inherently questions the normative
> framework.
> whether you say non normative functioning abilities and body structure or
> different.... or whatever but impairment is the worst one to use.
> sure some disabled people might see themselves as impaired but others with
> the same biological reality might perceive themselves not as impaired but
> simply hindered by societal structures. So it would be better to use a
> term which does not put everyone into a certain preset identity.
>
>
> I think as long as we are seen as a non acceptable divation from a norm
> instead of a acceptable variation from a norm we will have a hard time
> with societal adaptations.
>
> Well but than may be the editors define see impairment not as the
> expression of a medical non accepted divation from a norm
> but as something else like just the fact that we are not fitting a norm
> without the negative conotsation i apply to the term impairment.
>
>
>
> On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Shelley Lynn Tremain wrote:
>
> > Notice how the announcement below demonstrates once again that (despite
> > their pronouncements to the contrary) proponents of the social model
hold
> an
> > impairment-based view of disability. For the announcement does not
simply
> > state the different modes in which the text will be made available, and,
> in
> > doing so, imply that universal access (or something approaching it) is a
> > human right and should be the rule, not the exception to the rule.
> Instead,
> > there is a compulsion on the part of the Centre to single out various
> groups
> > of people who might differ from "normal book-users" (i.e., sighted
people
> > or people with 'normal' communication abilities who use printed text)
and
> > who, insofar as they differ from the norm, require 'special treatment'
> when
> > it comes to books.
> >
> >
> > S.L. Tremain
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mark Priestley" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 5:13 AM
> > Subject: new book
> >
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > As some of you may be aware, we were pleased to publish a new title in
the
> > Disability Press book series this month, as follows:
> >
> > Implementing the Social Model of Disability: Theory and Research
> >
> > Edited by Colin Barnes and Geof Mercer
> >
> > This book contains 13 chapters on the theoretical and research
> implications
> > of the social model of disability. Over the last three decades
disability
> > activists have established the social model of disability as a
> comprehensive
> > critique of mainstream academic theories and policy approaches. The
> > contributors, including established figures and newcomers to the field,
> > raise a number of important controversies and concerns central to
> theorising
> > and researching disability in the 21st century. Taken together they
> provide
> > ample testimony to the continuing vitality of debates around the social
> > model in disability studies. It will prove to be an invaluable addition
to
> > the growing body of knowledge that underpins disabled people's ongoing
> > struggle for a fair and just society.
> >
> > 'Implementing the Social Model of Disability: Theory and Research' is
also
> > available at no additional cost on CD, in PDF format, for ease of access
> for
> > people with visual or communication related impairments.
> >
> > 'Implementing the Social Model of Disability: Theory and Research' is
only
> > available by mail order
> >
> > at: £16.50 including postage and packing (20% discount for orders of
four
> or
> > more)
> >
> > Payment may be by credit card (Visa or Mastercard) via telephone, fax,
> > email, or by Stirling cheque drawn on a UK bank (payable to the
University
> > of Leeds). To order contact Marie Ross
> > (44) 113 3434407 (tel. and minicom)
> > (44) 113 3434415 (fax)
> > email: [log in to unmask]
> > or by post at:
> >
> > Centre for Disability Studies,
> > School of Sociology and Social Policy,
> > University of Leeds,
> > LS2 9JT
> > UK
> >
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> Dr. Gregor Wolbring
> webpage: http://www.bioethicsanddisability.org
> Member of the Executive of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO
> (CCU)
>
> Biochemist at the Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
> Faculty of Medicine University of Calgary,Alberta,Canada
>
> Adjunct Assistant Professor for bioethical issues
> at the Dept. of Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies
> Faculty of Education University of Calgary, Alberta Canada
>
> Adjunct Assistant Professor with the John Dossetor Health Ethic Center,
> University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
>
> Founder and Executive director of the International Center for
> Bioethics,Culture and Disability
> Founder and Coordinator of the International Network on Bioethics and
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>
> Phone 1-403-2108710
> Fax 1-403-283-4740
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> Mailing address:
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> Faculty of Medicine
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