Guest Editorial: Human Security, Social Cohesion, and Disability
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Human Security, Social Cohesion, Disability
Abstract
Elements comprising this Review of Disability Studies issue title - Human Security, Social Cohesion, Disability – invite reflection on inter-relationships and tensions: Security with or against impairment; insider/outsider status; impairment as impropriety; health definitions; measures (DALYs); elimination; professional discourse; bridging social capital; possibilities and constraints on flourishing; and concrete global examples.
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Carvejal, F. & Iglesias, J. (2002). Face-to-face emotion interaction studies in Down syndrome infants. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 26(2), 104–112.
Commission on Human Security. (2003). Human Security Now. Commission on Human Security. Retrieved September 28, 2008, from http://www.humansecurity-chs.org/finalreport/English/FinalReport.pdf.
Foot, P. (2003). The grammar of goodness: an interview with Philippa Foot. Harvard Review of Philosophy, 11, 32-44.
Gabriel S. E., Kneeland, T. S., Melton, L. J. 3rd, Moncur, M. M., Ettinger, B., & Tosteson, A. N. (1999). Health-related quality of life in economic evaluations for osteoporosis: Whose values should we use? Medical Decision Making, 19, 141-148.
Jensen, J. (2002). Identifying the links: Social cohesion and culture. Canadian Journal of Communication, 27, 2. Retrieved September 28, 2008, from http://www.cjc-online.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/1289/1309
Joseph, J. (2005). The 1942 'euthanasia' debate in the American Journal of Psychiatry. History of Psychiatry, 16(62 Pt 2), 171-179.
Koch, T. (2004). The difference that difference makes: Bioethics and the challenge of ‘disability.’ Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 29, 697-716.
Maslow, A.T. (1943). A theory of human motivation. Psychological Review, 50, 370-396.
Miller, V. L., Ransom, S. B., Ayoub, M. A., Krivchenia, E. L., & Evans M. I. (2000). Fiscal impact of a potential legislative ban on second trimester elective terminations for prenatally diagnosed abnormalities. American Journal of Medical Genetics, 91, 359-62
Murray, C. J. L. (1994) Quantifying the burden of disease: The technical basis for disability-Adjusted life years. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 72, 429-445.
Murray, C. J. L. & Acharya, A. K. (1997). Understanding DALYs. Journal of Health Economics, 16, 703-730.
Nussbaum, M.C. (2006). Frontiers of justice: Disability, nationality, species membership. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Pernick, M. S. (1996). The black stork: Eugenics and the death of ‘defective’ babies in American medicine and motion pictures since 1915. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Parikh, M. K. (2008). Sara Palin’s choice. Salon. Retrieved September 14, 2008, from http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2008/09/05/sarah_palin_down_syndrome/
Sen, A. (1993). Capability and well-being. In A. Nussbaum & A. Sen (Eds.), The Quality of Life. Oxford University Press.
Sheridan, M. (2006). Nation under a nuclear cloud. Racially impure children killed. (2006, October 15). The Times Online [The Sunday Times]. Retrieved April 22, 2008, fromhttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article600929.ece
Skotko, B. (2005). Mothers of children with Down Syndrome reflect on their postnatal support. Pediatrics, 115, 64-77.
United Nations (2006). Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Optional Protocol. United Nations. Retrieved September 29, 2008, from http://www.un.org/disabilities/documents/convention/convoptprot-e.pdf.
Walker, J. M. (1993). The difference between disability and impairment: A distinction worth making. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, 3, 162-172.
Weeks, C. (2008). A message of hope – Or pressure to keep the baby? Globe and Mail. (2008, September 9). Retrieved September 14, 2008, from http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080909.wxldown09/BNStory/International/
Wolbring, G. (2005). The triangle of enhancement medicine, disabled people, and the concept of health: a new challenge for HTA, health research, and health policy. HTA Initiative #23. Edmonton: Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research, Health Technology Unit. Retrieved September 23, 2008, from http://www.ihe.ca/documents/HTA-FR23.pdf
World Bank Group. (2002a) DALYs lost to Down Syndrome, by World Bank region description. Disease Control Priorities Project. World Bank Group. Retrieved September 15, 2008, from http://www.dcp2.org/slides/462/preview
World Bank Group. (2002b) DALYs lost to Down Syndrome, by World Bank region (slide). Disease Control Priorities Project. World Bank Group. Retrieved September 15, 2008, from http://www.dcp2.org/slides/462/1.ppt
World Health Organization (1946). Constitution of the World Health Organization [as adopted by the International Health Conference, New York, 19-22 June, 1946]. Retrieved September 13, 2008, from http://www.searo.who.int/LinkFiles/About_SEARO_const.pdf
World Health Organization (2001a). International classification of functioning, disability and health. Final draft. Full version. WHO/EIP/GPE/CAS/ICIDH-2 FI/ 01.1 Geneva: WHO. Retrieved September 13, 2008, from http://www.sustainable-design.ie/arch/ICIDH-2Final.pdf
World Health Organization (2001b). International classification of functioning, disability and health. Geneva: WHO.
Yaruss J. S. (1998). Describing the consequences of disorders: stuttering and the international classification of impairments, disabilities, and handicaps. Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research, 41, 249-257.
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Author Biography
Kirk C. Allison, Program Director, Program in Human Rights and Health of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health
Kirk C. Allison, Ph.D., M.S., is the Program Director of the Program in Human Rights and Health of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health and lecturer in the Division of Health Policy and Management.