Disability rights

I recently have become intrested in disability rights, thanks largely to a thought-provoking talk by Gregor Wolbring of the International Center of Bioethics, Culture, and Disability, which I saw at an anti-biotech conference in 2002.

Fact

Marcus Fiesel: an article I co-wrote about the suspected murder of an autistic foster child for Wikipedia. Because it has been nominated for deletion, I am reproducting it here.

Opinion

Does Institutional Schooling Help Disabled Children, or Create Them? By imposing conformity on children, institutional schools pathologize differences.

Killing Terri Schiavo: why Terri should have her feeding tube put back in.

Links

International Center of Bioethics, Culture, and Disability: An extensive site with links to a wealth of information. They also have a Yahoo! group in which I am a regular participant.

Ragged Edge Magazine: excellent news articles and opinion pieces on disability-related issues.

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