The Right to Be Impaired and the Legacy of Eugenics: A Critical Reading of the UN Convention on “Disability” Rights

摘要: The links between medicine and society can be viewed from many perspectives yet their relationship should always seen as contested political. Here I use human rights my starting point. A sociological account of address the discourse its possibilities for emancipation well domination. Silences are not simply absences, but constitutive features practice which inform issues inclusion, exclusion, participation (Bhambra Shilliam in Silencing Human rights. Critical engagements with a project, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2008). “disabled” persons have long been silence discourse, despite atrocities against them other groups during World War II that informed development UN framework. However, experimental gassing 275,000 Germans labeled under Nazi T4 program (Baker Teachers College Record, 104:663–703, 2002) predating war was widely known, although Allied governments had at least known death camps since 1944 (Swiebocki London has informed. Reports by Auschwitz Escapees, Museum, Oswiecim, 2002). Therefore, agenda being conceptually linked to eugenics using worst outcomes point reference, people targeted disability oppression were explicitly included matter international concern.