Introduction: Life, disability and the pursuit of human rights

Disabled People and the Right to Life: The Protection and Violation of Disabled People’s Most Basic Human Rights

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-29

  Clements, Luke ^a   Read, Janet ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203933459-8     Document Type: Chapter

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