127 NINE Linking ‘race’, mental health and a social model of disability: what are the possibilities? Frank Keating Introduction Individuals from Black and Minority Ethic (BME) groups who experience mental health problems, already face what some have termed ‘double jeopardy’. Therefore, to situate their experience within a social model of disability (or other models of disability) as well may add another layer of unnecessary complexity. However, I will argue that insights from a social model of disability can offer a way of theorising and addressing mental
41 FOUR transitions for young people with learning disabilities Gillian MacIntyre introduction This chapter will explore the nature of transition from childhood to adulthood for one particularly vulnerable group of young people – those with learning disabilities. It will outline their experiences of transition before examining policy responses in relation to these experiences. The process of transition has become increasingly complex for all young people. This can be ascribed to structural factors such as the collapse of the youth labour market, increased
41 THREE Sickness and disability reform in the Netherlands In their original design, welfare states were set up to protect workers of the industrial age by providing risk-pooling social insurances for risks encountered in the social system of production: unemployment, disability and the need for a pension during old age. European welfare states, after recovering from the Great Depression and World War II, expanded these policies as their economies thrived and employment expanded, allowing a generous welfare state response to social risks. But generous
261 EIGHTEEN ‘It’s complicated’: blending disability and mad studies in the corporatising university Kathryn Church Introduction Let’s say you accept the principle that all study of past cultural practice is a contribution to the history of the present. And let’s say that you also accept the testimony of your exhausted body that the present is a time of struggle. (Marc Bousquet, 1998) Across their diversity, the contributors to this book address the question of whether and how ‘mental distress’ and disability do/ might come together in theory, policy
179 FOURTEEN Understanding the growth in disability benefits Summary Increasing recognition of the financial and opportunity costs of disability, and public perceptions that views of disabled people were ‘legitimate’ long- term welfare recipients, were important factors in the growth in benefit caseloads. They led to the introduction of new benefits, and possibly higher up-take. The changing economy and labour market may have contributed to increasing benefit caseloads, especially to longer periods on benefit. Market- led requirements for firms to be more
0 Ageing, disability, criminology and criminal justice NINe Ageing, disability, criminology and criminal justice Introduction Two further minority groupings that have traditionally been marginalised by criminologists are those consisting of older people, and people with disabilities. In criminology, there is a tendency to focus upon the experiences of young people, particularly as offenders, although some research in relation to the fear of crime and victimisation has included a consideration of older people. On the other hand, disabled people who
Introduction Older adults living with disabilities in Canada often require assistance from a relative or friend (that is, a family carer) ( Kokorelias et al, 2020 ). Based on 2012 estimates, 13.7 per cent of the Canadian population (4.8 million Canadians) lived with disabilities ( Statistics Canada, 2013 ) and 28 per cent of the population (9.7 million Canadians) aged 15 and above provided unpaid care to a family member, friend or neighbour ( Fast, 2015 ). While 74 per cent of carers spent under ten hours per week on care, 10 per cent of them provided unpaid
7 ONE disability and education in historical perspective Anne Borsay introduction The human rights agenda, broadly defined, promotes health and well-being by upholding ‘opportunity and choice, freedom of speech, respect for individuality and an acceptance of difference in all spheres of life’ (Armstrong and Barton, 1999, p 211). For disabled people, the realisation of these aspirations is an inclusive society, where the economic, political, ideological, social and cultural barriers that underpin inequality and discrimination are dismantled. The purpose of
79 FIVE A Greek Neverland: the history of the Leros asylums’ inmates with intellectual disability (1958–95) Danae Karydaki All children, except one, grow up. Barrie, 1911, 3 Introduction On 10 September 1989, a Greek scandal made headlines in the British Observer newspaper; the article’s title was ‘Europe’s Guilty Secret’ and the front page depicted several naked male mental patients looking desperate, wandering around the Leros Psychiatric Hospital buildings in Lepida. The piece described the appalling living conditions under which the patients struggled
21 ONE Paradoxical lives: intellectual disability policy and practice in twentieth-century Australia Lee-Ann Monk Introduction In 1911, in a paper read at the Australasian Medical Congress, Melbourne doctor J.W.Y. Fishbourne urged Australia to implement policies to remedy ‘the problem of the feeble-minded’. In failing to act, he asserted, the nation was lagging behind international opinion: ‘The United States of America recognise the danger and England is beginning to waken up to the seriousness of the problem’. To prove his point, he cited evidence from
