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Australian Indigenous people with disability: ethics and standpoint theory
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Australian Indigenous people with disability: ethics and standpoint theory

John Gilroy and Michelle Donelly
Disability in the global south : the critical handbook, pp.545-566
International perspectives on social policy, administration, and practice.
2016

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Abstract

Medicine and Health Sciences Indigenous standpoint theory Indigenous disability understandings ethics Australia colonialism knowledge production race and racism Studies of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Society Human Rights and Justice Issues Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health - Determinants of Health Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health - Health Status and Outcomes Justice and the Law not elsewhere classified

Research on impairment and disability among Indigenous people in Australia has reflected and served the colonial enterprise. National ethical guidelines on research have not been effective in addressing the manner in which Australian Indigenous people with a disability are framed and disempowered in disability research methodology and epistemology. A comprehensive community-grounded, structural enquiry framework is proposed to address these concerns.

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