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27/02/2014
Noticias

Un nuevo estudio dirigido por científicos del ‘Weill Cornell Medical College’, en Nueva York, Estados Unidos, muestra que la forma genética más común de retraso mental y autismo se debe a un mecanismo que apaga el gen asociado con la enfermedad. Los resultados, publicados en ‘Science’, también muestran que un medicamento que bloquea este mecanismo […]

27/02/2014
Noticias

La Secretaría Nacional de Sanidad y Asuntos Sociales del Partido Popular reconoció este jueves que hay que «fortalecer los esfuerzos» para lograr «una inclusión real y efectiva de los colectivos más vulnerables, como es el caso de las personas con discapacidad». El PP hizo estas consideraciones con motivo de la celebración, mañana viernes, del Día […]

26/02/2014
Artículos

This exploration of disability directly applies Campbell’s understanding of “abledness” to the film Phenomena by Italian director Dario Argento. Phenomena ( 1985 ) explores, through the diegetic response to protagonist Jennifer Corvino’s ability to communicate with insects, the shifting cultural association between disability and deviance. The film begins with the traditional response to disability, what […]

26/02/2014
Artículos

In 1835 Joseph Plateau (1801-1883) was appointed Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Ghent University, Belgium. By then he was well known for his groundbreaking work on the aftereffect of light on the human retina, and he would go on to become the first person to produce moving images, for which he is considered […]

26/02/2014
Artículos

The article aims in two parts to develop a sense of truth as bodiliness and forgiveness. In bodiliness, we suffer by the suffering of the other and in forgiveness there arises an existential journey of sensibility and feelings. Together, bodiliness and forgiveness provide a relational horizon to journey towards truth. Part I of the article […]

26/02/2014
Artículos

This essay looks at the representation of disability in the recent Spanish film Yo, tambien through the lens of disability studies, understood as a political project. The film’s portrayal of a character who is, like the actor who plays him, Europe’s first university graduate with Down syndrome, is unique. Moreover, Yo, tambien provides the opportunity […]

26/02/2014
Formación

La Conferencia Internacional sobre Diseño Universal tendrá lugar en Ingvar Kamprad Design Centre de la Universidad de Lund (Suecia) del 16 al 18 de junio de 2014