Independent Living Institute

M. Miles,  UK.  

March 2006.  Version 3.7

Contents

MODERN MATERIALS (mid-1970s to 2006)
1.0  Cautionary Introduction
2.0  Annotated bibliography (worldwide)

HISTORICAL MATERIALS (Antiquity to mid-1970s)
3.0  Historical Briefing
4.0  Annotated bibliography (by region)
           4.1  East Asia
           4.2  South Asia
           4.3  Middle East
           4.4  Africa
           4.5  Europe

M. Miles (West Midlands, UK)

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Compiled and annotated by M. Miles

ABSTRACT.  The bibliography lists and annotates modern and historical materials in translation, sometimes with commentary, relevant to disability, mental disorders and deafness, in the context of religious belief and practice in the Middle East, South Asia and East Asia, together with secondary literature.

KEYWORDS.  Bibliography, disabled, deaf, blind, mental, religion, spirituality, history, law, ethics, morality, East Asia, South Asia, Middle East, Muslim, Jewish, Zoroastrian, Hindu, Jain, Sikh, Buddhist, Confucian, Daoist (Taoist).

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M. Miles, compiler and annotator
(West Midlands, UK)

KEYWORDS:  China, Japan, Korea, East Asia, impairment, disability, deafness, mental disorder, history, education, social responses, rehabilitation, welfare, bibliography.

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Barefoot Realities

Most of the world's disabled people live in rural Africa and Asia. Most plans for vocational rehabilitation originate in modern cities. Such schemes seldom reach rural disabled people. If they reach them, they tend to be irrelevant and inappropriate, based on assumptions distant from the real life situation of the rural disabled person. This paper starts at the other end, far from New York, Stockholm, Nairobi or Bangkok. It starts with the following probabilities:

1. Disabled people's relatives provide them with basic food and shelter for life, as far as they are able. They might not perform this duty with much pleasure, but they are well aware that it is their duty.

Published in: Enns, Henry. 1998. Conflict Situations and Disabled Persons

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By Phitalis Were Masakhwe, 24 January 2008  

Some time back I wrote about the Rwandan Genocide and its impact on disabled people; the untold story. It never occurred to me that one day I would be writing a similar story about disabled people in Kenya.

The flawed presidential election and the ensuing violence throughout Kenya have rattled the peace and tranquility that the country has long known.  The reasons for the current situation are varied, politics, long-standing ethnic differences, and historical injustices and imbalances, particularly the issue of access to and distribution of resources and opportunities. 

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Denna rapport är en första del av ett projekt vars syfte är att visa de samhällsekonomiska effekterna av personlig assistans. Forskningsprojektet drivs av stiftelsen Independent Living Institute, ILI. Målsättningen är att visa hur assistansreformen har påverkat och utvecklat tillvaron för personer med funktionsnedsättningar.

För upplysningar om projektet kontakta:
Adolf Ratzka, telefon: 08-740 42 00, e-post: adolf.ratzka@independentliving.org

Compiled and annotated by M. Miles, July 2008.

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CONTENTS
1.  INTRODUCTION
2.  EAST ASIA         
3.  SOUTH ASIA     
4.  MIDDLE EAST
5.  AFRICA

Introduction

Social policy is typically not made by the people who are most affected by it. Up to now, we, the users of assistance, have had to accept the decisions handed down to us by other people. Since we are often considered helpless and incapable of taking charge of our own lives, the public and often we ourselves have taken for granted that it is best for us, if others, the professionals make these decisions for us.