Book contents
- Disability, Health, Law, and Bioethics
- Disability, Health, Law, and Bioethics
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Disability: Definitions and Theories
- Part II Disability in the Beginning and the End of Life
- Part III Disability in the Clinical Setting
- Part IV Equality, Expertise, and Access
- Part V Disability, Intersectionality, and Social Movements
- Introduction to Part V
- 14 Destigmatizing Disability in the Law of Immigration Admissions
- 15 The Normative Bases of Medical Civil Rights
- 16 Judicial Representation: Speaking for Others from the Bench
- Part VI Quantifying Disability
14 - Destigmatizing Disability in the Law of Immigration Admissions
from Part V - Disability, Intersectionality, and Social Movements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 April 2020
- Disability, Health, Law, and Bioethics
- Disability, Health, Law, and Bioethics
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Disability: Definitions and Theories
- Part II Disability in the Beginning and the End of Life
- Part III Disability in the Clinical Setting
- Part IV Equality, Expertise, and Access
- Part V Disability, Intersectionality, and Social Movements
- Introduction to Part V
- 14 Destigmatizing Disability in the Law of Immigration Admissions
- 15 The Normative Bases of Medical Civil Rights
- 16 Judicial Representation: Speaking for Others from the Bench
- Part VI Quantifying Disability
Summary
Ever since the federal government began comprehensively regulating immigration in the late nineteenth century, noncitizens with traits associated with disability have faced more legal barriers to immigration than noncitizens without disabilities. Federal laws excluding noncitizens on the basis of vague, health-related criteria have existed since 1882. In the early twentieth century, the US Public Health Service instructed medical inspectors to search for evidence of conditions such as bunions, flat feet, hernia, hysteria, poor eyesight, psychoses of various kinds, spinal curvature, and varicose veins.
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- Disability, Health, Law, and Bioethics , pp. 187 - 199Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020