Moving Beyond the "Clash of Cultures"

"The perceptions and values of disabled people (particularly disability rights advocates and disabled social scientists) and of many nondisabled people (particularly health care professionals, ethicists, and health policy analysts), regarding virtually the whole range of current health and medical-ethical issues (treatment decision making, health care access and health care rationing, medical cost-containment, and assisted suicide) seem frequently to conflict with one another....Can we bridge the apparent gulf between disabled and nondisabled perspectives?...The perspectives and values of the disability rights community...need to be incorporated into the ongoing debate about medical practice, ethics, and policy."

--Paul Longmore, "Medical Decision Making and People with Disabilities: A Clash of Cultures," J of Law, Medicine and Ethics 23 (1995): 82-87.

Friday, October 15, 2010

Disability and Deaf Cultures Web Resources (a short list)

Blogs


disabled feminists

planet of the blind

bad cripple

First, Do No Harm:
Real Stories of Fat Prejudice in Health Care

Liz Spikol
mental disability

Amanda Baggs
woman with autism


Web Resources:  Justice, Ethics, Health & Disability, Deafness, Fat Studies

Disability Studies Quarterly
outstanding journal, free online & searchable

Project Bias
can be used as a teaching tool

CDC video on disabled people as standardized patients

Amanda Baggs, “In My Language”
brilliant disability manifesto made by woman with autism

Ragged Edge online
search for ethics/clinical topics

Canadians with Disabilities:  We Are Not Dead Yet
continuing, not end-of, life issues:

Anne Finger on Disability and Hurricane Katrina, 2005

Fat studies perspective on anti-obesity campaign:

Health at Every Size wiki

Yale online course on weight bias in clinical settings

the Icarus Project
psychiatric survivors

Mind Freedom International
psychiatric survivors

Deaf Studies Digital Journal

William Peace on the Ashley Treatment

Deaf MD


Web Resources:  Arts and Culture


wheelchair dancer

Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry

Bibliography: Women, Disability & Deafness

I also have a lot of related types of articles in a bibliography on women with disability and issues related mostly to reproductive rights (intermixed with articles on motherhood.  I know there are one or two on deafness as designer disability). 
http://disabilitystudies.syr.edu/resources/motherhood.aspx

Here, too, is a section on D/deaf women:
http://disabilitystudies.syr.edu/resources/deafwomen.aspx

From:
Rachael A. Zubal-Ruggieri
Information Coordinator, SU Center on Human Policy, Law, and Disability Studies
Coordinator of Computer & Technical Applications, Mid-State Early Childhood Direction Center
Coordinator of Computer & Technology Outreach, Syracuse University Parent Advocacy Center (SUPAC)
Editorial Staff, Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD)
Syracuse University, 805 South Crouse Avenue
Syracuse, NY  13244-2280
315-443-2761 | FAX 315-443-4338
E-mail:  thechp@syr.edu | E-mail:  razubal@syr.edu
http://thechp.syr.edu | http://ecdc.syr.edu
http://disabilitystudies.syr.edu | http://www.supac.org

A really comprehensive bibliography on disability, health, &/or ethics

http://refworks.scholarsportal.info/refshare/?site=010381128139200000/190-95-8SKCK71839989/Upload

Sent to me by
Dr. Gregor Wolbring
Assistant Professor
University of Calgary
Phone 1-403-210-7083
webpage: http://www.bioethicsanddisability.org

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Disability in the Medical Literature: A Short Bibliography


International classification of functioning, disability and health. International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health. 2001. 

Iezzoni LI. Tracking disability disparities: The data dilemma. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy. 2008;13:129-130. 

Iezzoni LI. Going beyond disease to address disability. N Engl J Med. 2006;355:976-979. 

Iezzoni LI. Toward universal design in assessing health care experiences. Med Care. 2002;40:725. 

Iezzoni LI. A 44-year-old woman with difficulty walking. J Am Med Assoc. 2000;284:2632-2639. 

Iezzoni LI. What should I say? communication around disability. Ann Intern Med. 1998;129:661-665. 

Iezzoni LI, Freedman VA. Turning the disability tide: The importance of definitions. JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association. 2008;299:332-334. 

Iezzoni LI, McCarthy EP, Davis RB, Harris-David L, O'Day B. Use of screening and preventive services among women with disabilities. American Journal of Medical Quality. 2001;16:135-144. 

Iezzoni LI, O'Day BL, Killeen M, Harker H. Communicating about health care: Observations from persons who are deaf or hard of hearing. Ann Intern Med. 2004;140:356-362+I68. 

Kirschner KL, Breslin ML, Iezzoni LI. Structural impairments that limit access to health care for patients with disabilities. Journal of the American Medical Association. 2007;297:1121-1125. 

McCarthy EP, Ngo LH, Roetzheim RG, et al. Disparities in breast cancer treatment and survival for women with disabilities. Ann Intern Med. 2006;145:637-645. 

Steinberg AG, Iezzoni LI, Conill A, Stineman M. Reasonable accommodations for medical faculty with disabilities. J Am Med Assoc. 2002;288:3147-3154. 

Ubel PA, Loewenstein G, Jepson C. Whose quality of life? A commentary exploring discrepancies between health state evaluations of patients and the general public. Quality of Life Research. 2003;12:599-607.