Luke Clements / Janet Read (eds.)

Gebundenes Buch

Disabled People and the Right to Life

The Protection and Violation of Disabled People's Most Basic Human Rights

Herausgeber: Clements, Luke; Read, Janet

Beschreibung

This book explores how disabled people's right to life is understood in different national contexts and the ways in which they are - or are not - afforded protection under the law, emphasizing the social, cultural and historical forces and circumstances which have promoted disabled people's right to life or legitimated its violation.

Autor

Luke Clements is a Reader in Law at Cardiff University Law School, Wales and a practising solicitor. He is a member of the Law Society's Mental Health and Disability Committee and a member of the editorial board of European Human Rights Law Review. He has published extensively on the legal aspects of human rights issues. Janet Read is a Reader in the School of Health and Social Studies at the University of Warwick. Her research and publications have recently centred on mothers of disabled children, disabled children and the law and the use of ICT to meet carers' information needs. She is an editor of Disability and Society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 605g
• ISBN-13: 9780415407137
• ISBN-10: 0415407133
• Artikelnr.: 25006937