One of the best single essays I have used is Michael Berube's "Life As We
Know It" which appeared in Harpers originally. It foregrounds an argument
about language and the social construction of disability without getting
lost in jargon. David Mitchell.
At 05:15 PM 9/3/99 -0400, you wrote:
> A therapist/artist friend, who sometimes guest-lectures to
>students in physical therapy and other fields, asked my help in finding
>some key pieces promoting a disability rights perspective, which could be
>assigned as part of a 1-2 week mini-course. He was interested in covering
>a number of perspectives (medicine, politics, popular culture, etc). He's
>looking for about 4 or so articles. Off the top of my head, I came up
>with the following 3. Any suggestions? Thank you!
> John Kelly
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>Hershey, Laura
> 1994 "Choosing Disability"
> MS. July/August: 26-32.
> Really upsets conventional notions of the tragedy of a
>prenatal Dx
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>Longmore, Paul K.
> 1985 "Screening Stereotypes: Images of Disabled People."
> Social Policy (Summer), 31-38.
> The classic pop culture piece
>Zola, Irving
> 1993 "Disability Statistics: What We Count and What it Tells
> Us." Journal of Disability Policy Studies 4(2):9-39.
> Where disability is so problematized as to become both
>a ubiquitous and an emptied-out category
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