Posts by Martin
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Access: The disabled soldier “problem”, in reply to Moz,
Thanks for this excellent post Robyn.
I'm thinking of the families of the VietNam vets who are the inheritors of agent orange; of successive governments' neglect; of how loyalty often goes only one way between citizens and the State
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Access: Disability as a wicked policy problem, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Wicked post Hilary!
I will be referring people new, and not so new, to policy to this post for an excellent exposition of wicked policy problems. However I do have a question: ORS is used as an example to solve the wicked problem of mainstreaming disabled students. You imply it failed because it only allowed for 1% of students and set funding accordingly. So the problem and solution seem obvious (increase ORS funding) rather than wicked. Or am i missing something?
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Access: It’s just a bout of Chronic Sorrow, in reply to Erin,
First , thanks to Hilary for the post in the first place; you have written eloquently about a very difficult topic which we in the disability world generally steer away from for fear of been seen as weak, poor-meish and so on. So thanks to you Erin for broaching the subject of grief we disabled people experience intermittently in such an upfront way (Water Dragon & Sacha have done so earlier, but more subtly).
I think the twists and turns this thread has taken is very interesting. It began with direct responses to Hilary focusing on what she said about chronic sorrow and then morphing into a discussion about crap DSS which are a contributing factor. So the discussion has moved from the psycho-emotional dimension of disability and impairment effects (Thomas 1999)* to disability itself. So thank you Erin for bringing us back to topic.
I can understand how a parent would have bouts of chronic sorrow for all her/his child is missing out on and the struggles s/he faces get (often) inadequate services. But i would classify my own situation as having moments of deep "pissoffedness" when, on occasions, its seems just so bloody hard living with the impairment effects of SCI.
*Thomas, C. (1999) Female Forms. Experiencing and Understanding Disability. Buckingham: Open University Press.
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Thanks for those beautiful thoughts & words Russell.
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Fascinating post Chelle. Thank you.
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Access: Right to die?, in reply to Sacha,
sorry, forgot the d as in "disabled people", Sacha.
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Access: Right to die?, in reply to Joe Wylie,
advocating the privileging of the disabled
We're disable people Joe, not the "disabled". As the disabled we have been incarcerated in institutions, subject to experimentation, and a whole host of other dehumanising treatments including involuntary euthanasia...
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Access: Right to die?, in reply to tussock,
There’s things were done with abortion and birth control last century that are also abhorrent, but we do allow women to choose birth control and even consciously terminate a pregnancy now, to kill their unborn children if you will. The abuses of the past do not have to arise in the present.
See my previous response to Joe
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Access: Right to die?, in reply to ,
No, physician assisted suicide, would be a medical procedure. Just like midwife assisted birth.
You gotta be kidding Steven.
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Access: Right to die?, in reply to Joe Wylie,
While it may be a long bow to draw, it seems no more so than the claim that liberalising the right to die will lead to a repeat of the holocaust.
‘Silent’ holocaust Joe, not the holocaust.
There are some cogent arguments that prenatal screening is the new eugenics aimed at the elimination of disabled people in the womb (so the silent holocaust continues). The paper “After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?” (Giubilini & Minerva, 2012) is even more alarming in its advocacy for the infanticide of those born with severe impairment. Above all, it highlights the ableism/disablism of experts which colour their pronouncements. I don’t want those sorts of people making decisions about how and when I am to die – which is what my original post is about and which is likely to happen as a matter of routine once the legal structure for euthanasia is put in place.