Disabled People in Britain and Discrimination (Book).

Book reviews* GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND

This important book is a pioneering application of a Geographical Information System (GIS) to medieval data, bringing together two national sources: the Inquisitions Post Mortem (IPM) for the period 1300–49 and the 1327, 1332, and 1334 lay subsidies.The results are in the form of numerous tables, graphs, and maps. Built around these is a series of invaluable commentaries. After a concise accoun...

Assisted suicide and disabled people.

Prenatal diagnosis and discrimination against the disabled.

Two versions of the argument that prenatal diagnosis discriminates against the disabled are distinguished and analysed. Both are shown to be inadequate, but some valid concerns about the social effects of prenatal diagnosis are highlighted.

Causing disabled people to exist and causing people to be disabled.

Attempts to determine or to select what kind of person or people to bring into existence are controversial. This is particularly true of “negative selection” or “selecting against” a certain type of person—that is, the attempt to prevent a person of a certain type, or people of that type, from existing. Virtually everyone agrees that some instances of negative selection are objectionable—for ex...

Learning Applications for Disabled People

This chapter presents e-learning practices and applications, which target people with visual and hearing disabilities. The first part discusses an elearning application, which targets visually impaired people while the second part presents an e-learning application for the teaching of the English language to deaf and hearing impaired people. The final part presents a study about the relationshi...