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Adv Child Dev Behav
September 2024
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States.
Disabled people are the largest minority group in the world. Like members of many minority groups, they face considerable prejudice and discrimination-known as ableism. Ableism reflects entrenched beliefs about what human bodies and minds should be like and a devaluation of individuals who deviate from that ideal.
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February 2024
Division of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Fam Syst Health
December 2023
Department of Neonatology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Child health inequities are largely the result of entrenched, structural barriers created by racism, sexism, xenophobia, classism, and ableism that generally persist across the life course (Braveman & Gottlieb, 2014). The impact of such inequities may be magnified for those with complex needs who face considerable challenges in adulthood (Bethell et al., 2014), such as preterm infants, who experience threats to both short- and longterm health and development.
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January 2024
Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing, University of Ottawa.
Background: In the Global North, advances in occupational therapy benefitted unduly from the oppression, disablement and suffering of thousands of people in the South (and beyond). To prevent the recurrence of these injustices, history must be unveiled and occupational therapists urged to come to terms with their own involvement and responsibility.
Objective And Method: Utilising Achille Mbembe's concept of , this academic essay blends select historical and philosophical perspectives to explore occupational therapy's concealed role in manifestations of institutionalised violence.
Med Health Care Philos
December 2023
Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Bernoullistrasse 28, 4056, Basel, Switzerland.
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