Here, here to Martin's comment. Surely is is a matter of both
prevention and inclusion. Is there anybody out there who would
advocate the ending of road safety campaigns to reduce the incidence
of brain injury because to do so might somehow imply that they were
therefore opposed to the full social, political, and economic inclusion of disabled people as a social
category?
Speaking personally, I suspect that I would continue to find my
own impairments - the results of meningitis - incommoding from time
to time even in a fully inclusive utopia. I have no problem with
research aimed at preventing and treating meningitis as an illness.
I think therefore that it is possible to argue that in any possible
world, it is better not to have had this particular illness. We're
back here to the distinction between illness and disability - not
the same thing at all!
Cheers,
Nick Acheson
> Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 18:24:13 +0000
> Subject: Re: prevention vs. inclusion?
> From: "Martin Fletcher" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask], Jonathan Flower <[log in to unmask]>
> Cc: "[log in to unmask]"
> <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-to: "Martin Fletcher" <[log in to unmask]>
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Jonathan Flower wrote:
> >
> >> how do we deal with the almost contradictory messages of disability being
> > something to be prevented and the
> >> acceptance of diversity in the community (including disability).
> >
> >
> > A great question, Jonathan! I'll be interested in responses
> >
> > Dona
> >
> >
> Surely not - I want to be accepted and to have access to everything and I
> want to be the last disabled person - what's contradictory about that?
>
> Martin
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