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  • 7 - Expressing Respect for People with Disabilities in Medical Practice

  • from Part III - Disability in the Clinical Setting
  • Edited by I. Glenn Cohen, Harvard Law School, Massachusetts, Carmel Shachar, Harvard Law School, Massachusetts, Anita Silvers, San Francisco State University, Michael Ashley Stein, Harvard Law School, Massachusetts
  • Book:
    Disability, Health, Law, and Bioethics
    Published online:
    08 April 2020
    Print publication:
    23 April 2020, pp 93-103

  • Summary

    All too often, the medical community treats people with disabilities in insulting and demeaning ways. Medical staff express disrespectful attitudes about disabled people through the environments they create, the policies they maintain, and the manner in which they interact with disabled patients. The symbolic messages of an inaccessible waiting room, a practice of transporting partially clothed disabled patients through public areas, or a turned-up lip at requests for accommodations are often offensive to disabled people. We – people with disabilities – deserve to be treated justly and humanely in medical settings, but we also deserve to be respected and to be shown respect in those contexts as well.