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7 - Expressing Respect for People with Disabilities in Medical Practice

from Part III - Disability in the Clinical Setting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2020

I. Glenn Cohen
Affiliation:
Harvard Law School, Massachusetts
Carmel Shachar
Affiliation:
Harvard Law School, Massachusetts
Anita Silvers
Affiliation:
San Francisco State University
Michael Ashley Stein
Affiliation:
Harvard Law School, Massachusetts
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All too often, the medical community treats people with disabilities in insulting and demeaning ways. Medical staff express disrespectful attitudes about disabled people through the environments they create, the policies they maintain, and the manner in which they interact with disabled patients. The symbolic messages of an inaccessible waiting room, a practice of transporting partially clothed disabled patients through public areas, or a turned-up lip at requests for accommodations are often offensive to disabled people. We – people with disabilities – deserve to be treated justly and humanely in medical settings, but we also deserve to be respected and to be shown respect in those contexts as well.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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