TY - JOUR
T1 - Trouble in Paradise - A disabled person's right to the satisfaction of a self-defined need: Some conceptual and practical problems
AU - Handley, Peter
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - This paper questions the usefulness of the rights-based approach to ameliorating
the social situation of disabled people in Britain and advances two criticisms. First, that
rights and self-de? ned needs have been under-theorised by disability theorists to the extent
that they have insuf? ciently appreciated the problems that these approaches pose. The paper
suggests that rights to appropriate resources to satisfy self-de? ned needs will generate vast
numbers of competing rights claims and that the resulting tendency of rights to con? ict has
been under-appreciated. Secondly, that there has been little consideration of how these
con? icts might be reconciled.
The ? rst two sections of the paper look at the concepts of ascribed and self-de? ned needs,
respectively, whilst the ? nal one looks at some of the problems of the rights approach and
some of the dif? culties of making self-de? ned need the basis of rights claims.
AB - This paper questions the usefulness of the rights-based approach to ameliorating
the social situation of disabled people in Britain and advances two criticisms. First, that
rights and self-de? ned needs have been under-theorised by disability theorists to the extent
that they have insuf? ciently appreciated the problems that these approaches pose. The paper
suggests that rights to appropriate resources to satisfy self-de? ned needs will generate vast
numbers of competing rights claims and that the resulting tendency of rights to con? ict has
been under-appreciated. Secondly, that there has been little consideration of how these
con? icts might be reconciled.
The ? rst two sections of the paper look at the concepts of ascribed and self-de? ned needs,
respectively, whilst the ? nal one looks at some of the problems of the rights approach and
some of the dif? culties of making self-de? ned need the basis of rights claims.
U2 - 10.1080/09687590025694
DO - 10.1080/09687590025694
M3 - Article
SN - 1360-0508
VL - 16
SP - 313
EP - 325
JO - Disability & Society
JF - Disability & Society
IS - 2
ER -