Paul (or anyone else)
I have not seen the documentary but may I suggest that if ever the
opportunity arises, you should make your own doco. Your letter
was a fascinating account by itself let alone as a letter of
suggestion. If none or few of your suggestions were acted upon,
that seems a huge loss of opportunity for everyone. One aspect of
the letter intrigues me...The 'ugly laws'. This sounds too comical to
be true (I guess I shouldn't be surprised but I am). Is there any
information about these ugly laws? Any references?
If an 'ugly law' had ever existed in Australia (and it could have
done....we did have a White Australia Policy), we would have had
no public politicians to enforce it :-)
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> During these same decades, segregation of disabled people was enforced by
> such ordinances as "ugly laws" in Chicago and other cities that prohibited
> any "person who is diseased, maimed, mutilated, or in any way deformed so
> as to be an unsightly or disgusting object or improper person to be
> allowed in or on the public ways or other public places in this city" from
> exposing "himself to public view." Did institutionalized prejudice such
> as this in any way influence the polio fund-raising or treatment? Given
> this deeply entrenched bias, was "overcoming" another form of stigma or a
> step toward social inclusion?
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> Sincerely,
>
> Paul K. Longmore
> Assistant Professor
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Best regards
Laurence Bathurst
School of Occupation and Leisure Sciences
Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Sydney
P.O. Box 170
Lidcombe NSW 2141
Australia
Phone: (62 1) 9351 9509
Fax: (62 1) 9351 9166
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Please visit the School's interim web site at
http://www.ot.cchs.usyd.edu.au
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