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What sorts of people are visible

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Development is an important issues and who can afford what and what one wants to sustain are issues impacting disabled people . Although the below does not deal with eugenics it deals with visibility and it highlights many issues disabled people think should be fixed.

The below is open access

Wolbring Gregor; Mackay, Rachel; Rybchinski Theresa; Noga Jacqueline (2013) Disabled People and the Post-2015 Development Goal Agenda in Sustainability 5(10): 4152-4182

http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/5/10/4152/pdf

2nd Annual INSPIRe Virtual Symposium

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2nd  Annual INSPIRe Virtual Symposium September 8-21, 2013

International Network of Student Perspectives In Research

Illuminating the world through student research, networking and discussion

“Exploring ability expectations through diverse disciplines and topics”

Call for papers see here DEADLINE 30 JULY 2013

Conference organized by my students for students

CFP at
http://www.crds.org/research/faculty/Call%20for%20Abstracts%202013second%20inspireconference.pdf

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Peace Studies Journal Theme: “Disability Studies and Ability Studies: Two Lenses to Investigate Peace

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Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Peace Studies Journal
www.peacestudiesjournal.org

Theme: “Disability Studies and Ability Studies: Two Lenses to Investigate Peace

 

Guest Editor:

Gregor Wolbring, Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies,

Dept. of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary

 

The Peace Studies Journal is an international interdisciplinary free online peer-reviewed scholarly journal.

 

Disability Studies is an interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary academic discipline that investigates the situation disabled people face [1] involving activists, teachers, artists, practitioners, and researchers [1]. Ability studies is linked to disability studies in the sense that disability studies covers people who are impacted by body related (physical, mental…) ability expectations and that the term ableism (the cultural dynamic that one perceives certain abilities as essential) was coined by disabled people to highlight the negative situation disabled people experience because they are labeled as not having the required ability expectations. However ability studies goes beyond body related ability expectations. Ability Studies investigates in general how ability expectation (want stage) and ableism (need stage) hierarchies and preferences come to pass and the impact of such hierarchies and preferences [2-3]. Ability Studies investigates: (a) the social, cultural, legal, political, ethical and other considerations by which any given ability may be judged, which leads to favoring one ability over another; (b) the impact and consequence of favoring certain abilities and rejecting others; (c) the consequences of ableism in its different forms, and its relationship with and impact on other isms [2-3].Peace is an ever evolving concept whose relation to disabled people and to ability expectations is so far under-investigated. We accept any peace related topic as long as it engages with it through an ability studies lens or disability studies lens or both.

We invite potential contributors (scholars, activists, and community leaders to submit

articles of 3000-5000 words (excluding figures and tables) of original research and scholarship (empirical, theoretical and conceptual)that engage with the concept of peace through the disability studies lens, the ability studies lens or both.

Please submit full article to the Guest Editor via e-mail at:
gwolbrin[at]ucalgary.ca by 15 July, 2013

Every submitted article will be subject to anonymous peer review and recommendations arising.

As to possible areas linked to the theme the below is a sample list of possible topics”

 

 

Concept of Peace;

Peace between human and nonhuman animals;

Peace between humans and the environment;

Peace and eco-ability;

Peace and eco-ableism;

Peace and disabled people;

Peace and ability expectations;

Peace and active citizenship;

Peace and law

Peace and community;

Future of Peace

Peace and activism and social movements

Peace and science and technology;

Peace and human enhancement;

Peace and subjective well-being;

Peace and body image;

Peace and Disablism;

Peace and medical and social health policies

Peace and elderly people, youthism and ageism

The ethics of Peace;

Peace and resolution of ability expectation conflicts

Peace and transformative ability expectations;

Peace and social change discourses

Peace and ability privilege

Peace and resilience

Peace and adaptation

Peace and transformative justice

Peace and energy insecurity

Peace and climate change insecurity

Peace and water and sanitation insecurity

Peace and human insecurity

Peace within families

Transformative peace

Peace and sport

 

 

Reference List

1.                    Society for Disability Studies. Guidelines for disability studies programs Society for disability studies [Online], 2012. http://disstudies.org/guidelines-for-disability-studies-programs/.

2.                    Wolbring, G., Why NBIC?  Why Human Performance Enhancement? Innovation; The European Journal of Social Science Research 2008, 21 (1), 25-40.

3.                    Wolbring, G., Expanding Ableism: Taking down the Ghettoization of Impact of Disability Studies Scholars. Societies 2012, 2 (3), 75-83.

 

 

 

 

Cheers Gregor

 

Dr. Gregor Wolbring

Associate Professor Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies

Dept. of Community Health Sciences

TRW Building, 3d31

3330 Hospital Drive NW

T2N4N1

Faculty of Medicine

University of Calgary

Calgary, Canada

Email: gwolbrin[at]ucalgary.ca

Phone: 1-403-210-7083

 

Virtual peer reviewed no cost conference from students for students

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Deadline for Abstract submission July 15

1st Annual INSPIRe Virtual Symposium September 22nd, 2012

International Network of Student Perspectives In Research

Illuminating the world through student research, networking and discussion

“Exploring ability expectations through diverse disciplines and topics”

http://ableism.wordpress.com/conference/

CALL FOR PAPERS for the International Journal of Disability, Community & Rehabilitation (IJDCR): What Sorts of People Should There Be?

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CALL FOR PAPERS

                                      for the International Journal of Disability, Community & Rehabilitation (IJDCR)

What Sorts of People Should There Be?

 Guest Editor

Gregor Wolbring, Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies, Dept. of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary 

 

 

 

Throughout history, people with non-normative abilities have been judged. Sometimes this judgment led to positive consequences, however for the most part these non-normative abilities were judged negatively and the carriers of such non-normative abilities experienced disabling treatment.   This very judgment (ableism) and its disabling consequences is one of the main areas of scholarly work within the realm of disability studies. Eugenics, the practice of finding ways to better heritable abilities of humans, is one dynamic that influences the judgment of people’s abilities and the disabling consequences and vice versa.

 

What sorts of people should there be is a question that has been asked and answered in different ways throughout human history, is still a question asked and answered today and will be with us also for some time in the future. 

 

Advances in science and technology will allow new judgments and actions linked to the sentiment around the question of what sorts of people there should be. 

 

In partnership with the SSHRC-CURA-funded project “Living Archives on Eugenics in Western Canada” (eugenicsarchive.ca), the Editors of IJDCR would like to devote a special issue on this topic. 

We invite potential contributors, regardless of fields of study (discipline), to submit 250-word abstracts that articulate the conceptual arguments and knowledge base to be covered in a critical analysis on various aspects from history to future of “What sorts of people should there be”.

 

Please submit abstracts to the Guest Editor via e-mail at gwolbrin[at]ucalgary.ca  by 15 July, 2012

 

From selected abstracts, we will request full articles of 3000-5000 words (excluding figures and tables) of original research and scholarship on a range of topics to be submitted to the editor by 15 October 2012. Note that an invitation to submit an article does not guarantee its publication.

 

Every submitted article will be subject to blind peer review and recommendations arising.

 

As to possible areas linked to the theme the below is a sample list of possible topics

 

  • What sorts of people should be born
  • What sorts of people should live
  • What sorts of people should be citizens
  • What sorts of people should compete
  • What sorts of people….

 

We invite authors to investigate the history, contemporary use and potential future exhibition of the relationships between the core question “What sorts of people should there be” and such issues as:

 

  • disabled people and what it means to be ‘disabled’,
  • the community around them
  • practitioners, consumers and researchers linked to the disability discourse
  • community rehabilitation and the rehabilitation field in general
  • inclusive education and the education of disabled people in general
  • the future of education
  • employability of disabled people
  • citizenship of disabled people
  • global citizenship
  • body image of disabled people
  • medical and social health policies and their impact on disabled people
  •  health care for disabled people
  • elderly people, youthism and ageism
  • disabled people in low income countries
  • laws and international conventions related to disabled people such as the UN      Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities
  • the concept of personhood
  • concept of health and health care
  • the measure of disability adjusted life years and other measurements used to guide health care dollar allocation
  • quality of life assessment
  • history
  • future
  • science and technology governance
  • science and technology assessment
  • ethics
  • enhancement

 For more information about the International Journal of Disability, Community & Rehabilitation (IJDCR) please go to http://www.ijdcr.ca.

 

International Journal of Disability, Community & Rehabilitation

www.ijdcr.ca

ISSN 1703-3381

 

 

Cheers

Gregor

Dr Gregor Wolbring

Associate Professor, University of Calgary,

Faculty of Medicine,

Dept. of Community Health Sciences, Specialization Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies, 

3330 Hospital Drive NW, T2N4N1, Calgary, Alberta , Canada

Email: gwolbrin[at]ucalgary.ca

Phone 1-403-210-7083

Web: http://www.crds.org/research/faculty/Gregor_Wolbring.shtml

 

 

Dr. Phil.com Mercy or Murder

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Deadly Consequences

Annette says she wants the right to euthanize her severely-disabled children, who are being kept alive only by feeding tubes. What would you do? Then, former model, Stephanie Vostry, says she’s fighting to survive chronic Lyme disease, an illness some believe she may be faking. Plus, chronic Lyme disease hits close to home for a “Dr. Phil” staff member.

Dr. Phil.com.

http://drphil.com/shows/show/1826

http://www.drphil.com/slideshows/slideshow/6834/?id=6834&showID=1826

http://www.drphil.com/slideshows/slideshow/6834/?id=6834&slide=1&showID=1826&preview=&versionID=

http://www.globalnews.ca/taking+mercy/6442597182/story.html

Dr Phil polls the audience

http://www.drphil.com/slideshows/slideshow/6834/?id=6834&slide=1&showID=1826&preview=&versionID=#

End of life report of Royal Society of Canada Expert Panel

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http://www.rsc-src.ca/documents/RSCEndofLifeReport2011_EN_Formatted_FINAL.pdf

Here a few quotes related to us

“We discussed in considerable detail the arguments against assisted suicide. The evidence does
not support claims that decriminalizing voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide poses a threat
to vulnerable people, or that decriminalization will lead us down a slippery slope from assisted
suicide and voluntary euthanasia to non-voluntary or involuntary euthanasia. “

Also note their definitions. It makes the proposal goes far beyond what is legal in Oregon and Washington eliminating terminal as a boundary

““Voluntary Euthanasia” is an act undertaken by one person to kill another person whose
life is no longer worth living to them in accordance with the wishes of that person.”
“End of life can be understood as a continuum of events starting with the diagnosis of one or more
serious illnesses or injury”

“The Panel recommends against using “terminal illness” as a prerequisite for requesting
assistance. The term is too vague and would leave the statute or policy open to a Charter
challenge. There is no precise science to providing a prognosis of a terminal illness in terms  specific length of time. Health care providers cannot be accurate enough, and if the statute or
policy does not include a time restriction then the condition “terminal illness” becomes too
broad. For example, a person with Guillain-Barré syndrome will die from her disease, but lives
in the average three years after diagnosis. Further, if the term “terminal illness” is made a
necessary condition in the statute, then it would be under-inclusive; there are many individuals
whose lives are no longer worth living to them who have not been diagnosed with a terminal
illness. They may be suffering greatly and permanently, but are not imminently dying. There is
no principled basis for excluding them from assisted suicide or voluntary euthanasia”

Cheers
Gregor

The sterilisation campaign of Women With Disabilities Australia has gone global. .

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The sterilisation campaign of Women With Disabilities Australia has gone global. . The Global Campaign to Stop Torture in Health Care has done a piece on our Exec Director, Carolyn Frohmader as their featured campaigner. Attached to the piece is a letter to Australian Attorney General Robert McClelland that people can send just by pressing their send button.

 

http://www.stoptortureinhealthcare.org/campaigner/carolyn-frohmader