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That does not explain a great deal Let us deal with the second first "Ill Health", well that is a contradiction in itself semantically, Health and Illness being opposed conventionally. However setting that aside we next come to the phrase "short term or long term" Can you give me a more meaningless phrase please, is it short term, long term, both, exclusively or neither? I think indeterminate might capture the sense better. I'll skip effect, most people know what that means, but then we come to tautology and circular definition. What is disease, and what is sickness, oh well chase it down in a dictionary and see if you come up with a definition that is not circular and referential. All we have is some sort of Roget's thesaurus here. What we have is words chasing after words, none of which pin down meaning or context. It is clear that the people who write these definitions have never thought very deeply about what they have committed to paper and if you took them to a pub in Westminster and bought them a couple of drinks, I wonder how much of it they could repeat. Ill means more than sick, sick means more than puke, and health is not unrelated to wealth, etymologically as well as systematically. Larry > -----Original Message----- > From: The Disability-Research Discussion List [mailto:DISABILITY- > [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Keith Armstrong > Sent: 09 April 2012 22:25 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: The word 'handicap'. > > Many people are confused with the words 'impairment' and 'disability', I hope the text > below clears up the confusion. > > In 'Improving the Life Chances of Disabled People', the (UK) Government reports that > 'Disability is defined... as the disadvantage experienced by an individual as a result of > barriers (attitudinal, physical etc) that impact on people with impairments and/or ill > health.' It emphasises that disability is distinct from both: > > • Impairment - a long-term characteristic of an individual which affects their > functioning and/or appearance and may give rise to pain, fatigue, communication > difficulties etc; and > > • Ill-health - the short-term or long-term effect of disease or sickness. > > Many people who have an impairment or ill-health would not consider themselves to > be disabled. A distinction also needs to be made between impairments and health > conditions, and 'disability' (which arises from society's failure to respond to the needs > of people with impairments).Preston, Gabrielle and Robertson, Mark, (2006: vi, vii), > Out of Reach, (London: Child Poverty Action Group) > > Keith > > ________________End of message________________ > > This Disability-Research Discussion list is managed by the Centre for Disability Studies > at the University of Leeds (www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies). > > Enquiries about list administration should be sent to disability-research- > [log in to unmask] > > Archives and tools are located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html > > You can VIEW, POST, JOIN and LEAVE the list by logging in to this web page. ________________End of message________________ This Disability-Research Discussion list is managed by the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds (www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies). Enquiries about list administration should be sent to [log in to unmask] Archives and tools are located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html You can VIEW, POST, JOIN and LEAVE the list by logging in to this web page. ________________End of message________________ This Disability-Research Discussion list is managed by the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds (www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies). Enquiries about list administration should be sent to [log in to unmask] Archives and tools are located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html You can VIEW, POST, JOIN and LEAVE the list by logging in to this web page.