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The body politic: Theorising disability and impairment (2007)
Journal Article
Cole, P. (2007). The body politic: Theorising disability and impairment. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 24(2), 169-176. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5930.2007.00369.x

© Society for Applied Philosophy, 2007. In her critique of the social model of disability, Lorella Terzi argues that it oversocialises disability, and that some kind of connection must be made between disability and bodily impairment. In this paper I... Read More about The body politic: Theorising disability and impairment.

Human rights and the national interest: Migrants, healthcare and social justice (2007)
Journal Article
Cole, P. (2007). Human rights and the national interest: Migrants, healthcare and social justice. Journal of Medical Ethics, 33(5), 269-272. https://doi.org/10.1136/jme.2005.014829

The UK government has recently taken steps to exclude certain groups of migrants from free treatment under the National Health Service, most controversially from treatment for HIV. Whether this discrimination can have any coherent ethical basis is qu... Read More about Human rights and the national interest: Migrants, healthcare and social justice.