In whose service ? Technology, care and disabled people: the case for a disability politics perspective.

By: Johnson, Liz & Moxon, Eileen.
Series: Disability & Society 13 (2) April 1998: 241-258.Publisher: 1998Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume Subject(s): EMPOWERMENT | INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY | POLITICS | TECHNICAL AIDS | TECHNOLOGY | UNITED KINGDOMSummary: This paper discusses the introduction of telematics technologies, which are advancing rapidly throughout the world, and which impact increasingly on the lives of disabled people. To date, these services have been largely determined by the interests of care service professionals etc. Missing from the debate has been the perspective of the disability movement. Such a perspecticve is needed if technological advances are to empower disabled people and not simply provide administrative solutions to the problems of increasingly hard- pressed service providers.
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This paper discusses the introduction of telematics technologies, which are advancing rapidly throughout the world, and which impact increasingly on the lives of disabled people. To date, these services have been largely determined by the interests of care service professionals etc. Missing from the debate has been the perspective of the disability movement. Such a perspecticve is needed if technological advances are to empower disabled people and not simply provide administrative solutions to the problems of increasingly hard- pressed service providers.

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