The New York Times article, "Wanting babies like themselves, some parents choose genetic defects," looks at preimplantation genetic diagnoses that is used to favor embryos with specific disabilities. While the article itself isn't exactly even-handed or disability-positive, the comments following it are simply hostile toward disability -- genetic defectives, in the article.
New York's North Country Public Radio has a "People First" Readers and Writers on the Air series, a more literary continuation of their award-winning "Disability Matters" series from last year that included interviews and documentaries about the lives of disabled folk. Check out the audio archives with Stephen Kuusisto and Reynolds Price. Upcoming programs feature Nancy Mairs, Temple Grandin and Michael Berube.
The Hamilton Spectator article "Poisoned Lives" reports on the radioactive land Navajo's on a Utah reservation call home:
In every corner of the reservation, sandy mill tailings and chunks of ore, squared off nicely by blasting, were left unattended at old mines and mills, free for the taking. They were fashioned into bread ovens, cisterns, foundations, fireplaces, floors and walls.
Navajo families occupied radioactive dwellings for decades, unaware of the risks.
Over the years, federal and tribal officials stumbled across at least 70 such homes, records show. The total number is unknown because authorities made no serious effort to learn the full extent of the problem or to warn all those potentially affected.
The November issue of Perspectives Online, the online journal for the American Historical Association, includes a forum on disability history.
Stuart Hughes, BBC producer and blogger at Beyond Northern Iraq, who lost a leg while covering the war in Iraq is the subject of the BBC News article "Bionic man."Autism Diva on the recent Newsweek cover story on autism.
Carnival round-up:
The latest Carnival of Feminists is up at Diary of a Freak Magnet.
Grand Rounds
Change of Shift
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