Part I The concepts: The human rights framing of disability
Further reading for Part I
On the status of persons with disabilities
There are now numerous large studies on the status of persons with disabilities
around the world.
• World Report on Disability, World Health Organisation & World Bank, 2011.
• Situation of Persons with Disabilities: Implementation of the UN Convention
in 15 countries and in 9 Austrian federal provinces based on 40 social
indicators, ESSL Social Index Pilot Study, 2010.
On disability social action movements
There are many books on the rise of disability social action movements around the world.
• H. Vanhala, Making Rights a Reality: Disability Rights Activists and Legal Mobilization
(Cambridge University Press, 2014)
• D.Z. Fleisher and F. Zames, The Disability Rights Movement: from Charity to Confrontation
(Temple University Press, 2001).
Disability policy book series (by publisher)
Many major publishing houses now have dedicated book series in disability.
• NYU Disability Studies (not strictly law; 29 books so far):
http://nyupress.org/advanced-search/?subjectId=17
• Syracuse University, Critical Perspectives on Disability (5 volumes so far):
www.syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/subject/disability.html
• Manchester University Press, Disability History Series (new series):
www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/articles/new-series-disability-history/
• Baylor University Press, book series on Religion, Theology and Disability (5 volumes so far):
www.baylorpress.com/en/Series/16/Studies%20in%20Religion,%20Theology,%20and%20
Disability
• Routledge, Advances in Disability Studies series (10 books so far):
www.routledge.com/series/RADS
On various perspectives/models on disability
This is only a highly selective sampling of major works: books and articles. Most of them deal with the
framing of disability and the contest between different models.
The Leeds University (UK) Centre on Disability Studies hosts an exceptionally useful online archive of
articles and material: http://disability-studies.leeds.ac.uk/library/
• E. Kittay and L. Carlson (eds.), Cognitive Disability and its Challenge to Moral Philosophy,
(Wiley Blackwell, 2010)
• P. Beresford, M. Nettle and R. Perring, Towards a Social Model of Madness and Distress:
Exploring what service users say (Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2010)
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