March 2001 heralded the presentation to parliament by the secretary of state for health of the Wh... more March 2001 heralded the presentation to parliament by the secretary of state for health of the White Paper Valuing People: A New Strategy for Learning Disability for the 21st Century. A cradle-to-grave strategy, it is shaped by the principles of Legal and Civil Rights, ...
This contribution reviews recent developments in the law and policy of healthcare decision-making... more This contribution reviews recent developments in the law and policy of healthcare decision-making by, with and for adults with learning disabilities. In particular, it considers the impact of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and the reforms outlined in the Department of Health's (2005) White Paper Our Health, Our Care, Our Say: A New Direction for Community Services, and the Local Authority Circular (2008) Transforming Social Care. Pressing issues such as the concept of choice for vulnerable adults and the challenges for professionals in assessing decision-making ability are assumed within these policy frameworks. Other issues, such as the importance of creating time to engage and involve vulnerable adults in decision-making about their health, continue to present challenges for healthcare policy and practice.
International Journal on Disability and Human Development, 2009
Abstract: This paper presents some of the ethical challenges facing services supporting adults wi... more Abstract: This paper presents some of the ethical challenges facing services supporting adults with learning disabilities/intellectual disability with life-limiting conditions and arises from a qualitative investigation of the preparation for, and responses to their deaths. The study highlights ...
This article explores the intersection of English adult protection law and policy as it impacted ... more This article explores the intersection of English adult protection law and policy as it impacted on the lives of people with mental disabilities. It evaluates developments that were premised on the notion of the 'vulnerable adult', in light of recent theoretical interrogation of vulnerability and the normative shifts in law and policy advocated by the UNCRPD. I argue that the policy and legal conceptions of vulnerability developed in England and Wales, if reworked, have the potential to transform our understanding of what it is to be vulnerable into a more radical and socially-grounded framework for adult safeguarding. This article concludes with some reflections on what further conceptual and policy work must be done in order to effect that transformation.
International Journal on Disability and Human Development, 2009
Abstract: This paper presents some of the ethical challenges facing services supporting adults wi... more Abstract: This paper presents some of the ethical challenges facing services supporting adults with learning disabilities/intellectual disability with life-limiting conditions and arises from a qualitative investigation of the preparation for, and responses to their deaths. The study highlights ...
... EMBODIMENT KIRSTY KEYWOOD University of Liverpool, UK ABSTRACT ... trust between patient and ... more ... EMBODIMENT KIRSTY KEYWOOD University of Liverpool, UK ABSTRACT ... trust between patient and therapist (Bruch, 1978; Lanceley and Travers, 1993: 835; cf. Serfaty and McCluskey, 1998: 27) and does not appear to improve the patient's long-term outcome (Bowers, 1994). ...
This article examines law's representation of embodied female identity in the context of two medi... more This article examines law's representation of embodied female identity in the context of two medical law cases, R. v. Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, ex parte Blood and B v. Croydon Health Authority. Through an examination of contemporary critiques of female embodiment, in particular the work of Judith Butler, two discursive strategies are suggested for their potential to reconfigure the sexed subject within legal discourse. Firstly, the act of transgressionthe flight from purportedly fixed subject positions -can be read in the case of Blood and calls into question law's ability to contain and sustain sexed identity as prediscursive and immutable. Secondly, the exposure of the historical formation of the female subjects of legal discourse, demonstrated through a genealogical reading of B v. Croydon Health Authority, contributes to feminist theoretical project to destabilise traditional gender categories and enable us to think beyond the category of 'Woman'.
This article explores criminal law reform proposals on the law relating to sexual offences, sched... more This article explores criminal law reform proposals on the law relating to sexual offences, scheduled for debate in the current Parliamentary session, in order to illustrate the current tension between sexual empowerment and protection of people with learning disabilities from sexual violence. It suggests that law's response to the sexuality of people with learning disabilities, evidenced by the Sexual Offences Bill currently before Parliament, will always be inadequate for as long it is characterised as choosing between protection and empowerment. An alternative conception of sexual rights has the protection to provide a fuller and more persuasive account of the sexuality of men and women with learning disabilities.
March 2001 heralded the presentation to parliament by the secretary of state for health of the Wh... more March 2001 heralded the presentation to parliament by the secretary of state for health of the White Paper Valuing People: A New Strategy for Learning Disability for the 21st Century. A cradle-to-grave strategy, it is shaped by the principles of Legal and Civil Rights, ...
This contribution reviews recent developments in the law and policy of healthcare decision-making... more This contribution reviews recent developments in the law and policy of healthcare decision-making by, with and for adults with learning disabilities. In particular, it considers the impact of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and the reforms outlined in the Department of Health's (2005) White Paper Our Health, Our Care, Our Say: A New Direction for Community Services, and the Local Authority Circular (2008) Transforming Social Care. Pressing issues such as the concept of choice for vulnerable adults and the challenges for professionals in assessing decision-making ability are assumed within these policy frameworks. Other issues, such as the importance of creating time to engage and involve vulnerable adults in decision-making about their health, continue to present challenges for healthcare policy and practice.
International Journal on Disability and Human Development, 2009
Abstract: This paper presents some of the ethical challenges facing services supporting adults wi... more Abstract: This paper presents some of the ethical challenges facing services supporting adults with learning disabilities/intellectual disability with life-limiting conditions and arises from a qualitative investigation of the preparation for, and responses to their deaths. The study highlights ...
This article explores the intersection of English adult protection law and policy as it impacted ... more This article explores the intersection of English adult protection law and policy as it impacted on the lives of people with mental disabilities. It evaluates developments that were premised on the notion of the 'vulnerable adult', in light of recent theoretical interrogation of vulnerability and the normative shifts in law and policy advocated by the UNCRPD. I argue that the policy and legal conceptions of vulnerability developed in England and Wales, if reworked, have the potential to transform our understanding of what it is to be vulnerable into a more radical and socially-grounded framework for adult safeguarding. This article concludes with some reflections on what further conceptual and policy work must be done in order to effect that transformation.
International Journal on Disability and Human Development, 2009
Abstract: This paper presents some of the ethical challenges facing services supporting adults wi... more Abstract: This paper presents some of the ethical challenges facing services supporting adults with learning disabilities/intellectual disability with life-limiting conditions and arises from a qualitative investigation of the preparation for, and responses to their deaths. The study highlights ...
... EMBODIMENT KIRSTY KEYWOOD University of Liverpool, UK ABSTRACT ... trust between patient and ... more ... EMBODIMENT KIRSTY KEYWOOD University of Liverpool, UK ABSTRACT ... trust between patient and therapist (Bruch, 1978; Lanceley and Travers, 1993: 835; cf. Serfaty and McCluskey, 1998: 27) and does not appear to improve the patient's long-term outcome (Bowers, 1994). ...
This article examines law's representation of embodied female identity in the context of two medi... more This article examines law's representation of embodied female identity in the context of two medical law cases, R. v. Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, ex parte Blood and B v. Croydon Health Authority. Through an examination of contemporary critiques of female embodiment, in particular the work of Judith Butler, two discursive strategies are suggested for their potential to reconfigure the sexed subject within legal discourse. Firstly, the act of transgressionthe flight from purportedly fixed subject positions -can be read in the case of Blood and calls into question law's ability to contain and sustain sexed identity as prediscursive and immutable. Secondly, the exposure of the historical formation of the female subjects of legal discourse, demonstrated through a genealogical reading of B v. Croydon Health Authority, contributes to feminist theoretical project to destabilise traditional gender categories and enable us to think beyond the category of 'Woman'.
This article explores criminal law reform proposals on the law relating to sexual offences, sched... more This article explores criminal law reform proposals on the law relating to sexual offences, scheduled for debate in the current Parliamentary session, in order to illustrate the current tension between sexual empowerment and protection of people with learning disabilities from sexual violence. It suggests that law's response to the sexuality of people with learning disabilities, evidenced by the Sexual Offences Bill currently before Parliament, will always be inadequate for as long it is characterised as choosing between protection and empowerment. An alternative conception of sexual rights has the protection to provide a fuller and more persuasive account of the sexuality of men and women with learning disabilities.
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