REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS DSQ SPECIAL ISSUE:

DISABILITY AND COVID-19

Special Issue Editors: Pamela Block, Western University, Canada; Anahí Guedes de Mello, Anis – Institute of Bioethics, Brazil; Éverton Luís Pereira, University of Brasilia, Brazil

Send proposals or outlines to pblock@uwo.ca by August 1, 2020.

Abstracts should be 500 words or less.

There is much to be said about the relationship between the coronavirus pandemic and disability. Possible topics for this special issue might include:

• Experiences of disabled people and their support networks during the pandemic;

• Local policy responses to the issue of disability and access to needed health care, including social engineering and eugenics measures;

• Procedures used to facilitate or prevent access to care or treatment;

• Changes in the lives of disabled people during and after the pandemic;

• Interaction of disabled people with new constraints, such as online classes, masks, social isolation, restricted services and mobilities; finally,

• Areas of strength and expertise that disabled people bring to the current crisis.

See the full Call for Proposals (CFP) in English, Portuguese, and Spanish HERE