The Civilian Disabled: War & its role in the disability rights movement

When:
September 19, 2014 @ 12:45 pm – 3:45 pm
2014-09-19T12:45:00+01:00
2014-09-19T15:45:00+01:00
Where:
Manson Lecture Theatre
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT
UK

The Civilian Disabled: War and its role in the...Speaker(s): Gareth Millward, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

When disabled people came together to form the Disablement Income Group in 1965, they demanded better services for “the civilian disabled”. This reflected the long-standing relationship between injured war veterans and disability policy in the United Kingdom. This talk begins to explain how, from the late nineteenth century, war and disability policy have been inextricably linked; and how this had knock-on effects for those who were not directly physically or mentally scarred by conflict.

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