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This chapter is an attempt to combine two separate but related issues. The first of those is an attempt to, at the very least, provide an outline sketch of the conditions under which disabled people live throughout the world. The second, related issue concerns my puzzlement as to why disabled people, wherever they live, experience conditions of life far worse than their non-disabled counterparts.
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© 1996 Michael Oliver
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Oliver, M. (1996). The World of Disability. In: Understanding Disability. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24269-6_9
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