Bad Cripple

Paralyzed since I was 18 years old, I have spent much of the last 30 years thinking about the reasons why the social life of crippled people is so different from those who ambulate on two feet. After reading about the so called Ashley Treatment I decided it was time to write a book about my life as a crippled man. My book, Bad Cripple: A Protest from an Invisible Man, will be published by Counter Punch. I hope my book will completed soon.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Travel and Gross Inequities

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At no point in my life is the discrimination against people with a disability more evident than when I use mass transportation. Buses, train...
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Saturday, February 7, 2009

Ableism: SNL, Paterson and Bad Humor

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The first time SNL lampooned David Paterson I was not amused. Well, actually I was more than a little mad. Go ahead and make fun of Paterson...
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Thursday, February 5, 2009

Framing the Debate: Assisted Suicide and Disability

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It is frigid in New York. When I woke up it was 4 f. and I measure this sort of cold by the creeks and cranks that materialize in my wheelch...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Ashley X: Intrigue and Ethics Collide

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It has been more than two years since Ashley X, the so called Pillow Angel, was thrust into the national spot light by her parents. In 2007 ...
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Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Assisted Suicide: Misconceptions Abound

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Yesterday, February 2, Steve Drake at Not Yet Dead wrote a reaction to an article about assisted suicide that appeared in the New Statesman....
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Friday, January 30, 2009

Ashley Treatment Symposium

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Yesterday I read an account of a symposium held in Seattle that dealt with the Ashley Treatment or what doctors like to call growth attenuat...
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Thursday, January 29, 2009

Dangerous People

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I just read a great three part column in the NewStatesMan by Victoria Brignell. Brignell writes a regular feature entitled "Crip's ...
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william Peace
PhD 1992 in anthropology Columbia University, I am interested in disability rights and bioethics.
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