Browsing University of Galway Theses by Subject "Disability"
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Advancing Science and Controlling the Misuse of Genetic Information in Employment and Insurance - Towards an Effective European Union Regulatory Framework
(2013-08-28)The science of genetic testing and related technology is rapidly advancing. Among other things, genetic testing technology may offer the prospect of being able to detect the onset of future disabilities. It also offers ... -
Empowering children and young people: an access to justice assessment of mental health law and policy
(2016-10-08)This thesis aims to comparatively assess the Irish government’s national, international and regional obligations to respect, protect and fulfil children’s access to justice rights under mental health law, policy and ... -
Exploring community living in Ireland: Experiences of ageing with and into disability
(NUI Galway, 2019-12-16)This research examines the topic of community living for older persons with disabilities. This group comprises people who are ageing with disabilities, either lifelong or earlier onset, as well as people who are ageing ... -
"Extraordinary Debilities": Disability in the works of Samuel Beckett, 1928-45
(2018-02-16)This thesis considers the importance of Samuel Beckett’s representations of disability in the first half of the twentieth-century. It suggests that the innovations of form that Beckett brings to modernism are inextricably ... -
Independent living for people with disability and high dependency needs - Why we need a P.A. Act and what it might look like in the Irish context
(NUI Galway, 2019-06-26)This research examines the legislative context for Independent Living for people with disabilities and high dependency needs in Ireland. The CRPD provides the key platform for this and reaffirms the fundamental rights of ... -
Making the new space created in the UN CRPD real: Ensuring the voice and meaningful participation of the disability movement in policy-making and national monitoring
(2014-12-16)The participation of persons with disabilities in policy and legislative processes and in monitoring the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is an international legal ... -
Media and disability - issues of portrayal and access
(2016-04-29)This thesis begins with the premise that freedom of expression is the cornerstone of a democracy and any limitation on it must be prescribed by law, be in support of a legitimate aim and be necessary in a democratic society. ... -
Representing experience - diversifying representation: blind and visually impaired men’s voice-centered narratives of self and identity in everyday life
(NUI Galway, 2019-04-11)This research examines disabled men's identities and lived experiences from the perspective of blindness and visual impairment. The first objective is to represent disability, make it visible, with lived accounts that ... -
Rethinking China’s mental health law reform: Treatment decision-making and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
(NUI Galway, 2019-10-24)This thesis explores China’s mental health law reform regarding treatment decision-making in the new era of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). It adopts a socio-legal approach, not only ... -
Vindicating substantive equality in the right to work of persons with disabilities in Indonesia
(NUI Galway, 2020-10-22)This thesis uses a substantive equality framework to analyse disability law and policy on the right to work of persons with disabilities in Indonesia, employing qualitative methods. Substantive equality is essential for ... -
What's Fair? Realising the right to Independent Living for people with intellectual disabilities: what Ireland needs to do.
(2013-10-17)Ireland has a long and shameful history of providing for the support and housing needs of people with intellectual disabilities in large institutions. This is not unique to Ireland, nor to people with intellectual ...