Groce, N;
(2014)
Disability and the League of Nations: the Crippled Child's Bill of Rights and a call for an International Bureau of Information, 1931.
DISABILITY & SOCIETY
, 29
(4)
503 - 515.
10.1080/09687599.2013.831752.
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Abstract
In Disability Studies the evolution of conceptual models is often portrayed as linear, with a nineteenth-century charity model shifting to the medical model that dominated disability discourse in the twentieth century. This is then assumed to be largely unchallenged until the 1970s, when an emergent Disability Rights Movement re-framed issues into the social model, from which evolved a rights-based model. This paper documents two early efforts to address disability issues submitted to the League of Nations: the Crippled Child’s Bill of Rights in 1931 and a ‘Memorial’ requesting the establishment of an International Bureau of Information on Crippled Children in 1929. Neither submission achieved its stated goals, yet both reflect early attempts to place disability within wider social contexts.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Disability and the League of Nations: the Crippled Child's Bill of Rights and a call for an International Bureau of Information, 1931 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09687599.2013.831752 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2013.831752 |
| Additional information: | © 2013 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The moral rights of the named author(s) have been asserted. |
| Keywords: | UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, social model, League of Nations, history of disability, conceptual models |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Epidemiology and Public Health |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1435604 |
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