title: [The impossible handicap. Analysis of the concept of handicap in the orientating law of 30 June 1975. 1].
abstract: This study focuses on handicap as is meant in the French law of june 30, 1975 for handicapped persons. The method is content analysis applied to the law itself and to directly relevant official texts (Bloch Lainé report of 1967, motives statement of the law, debates in parliament, Cour des Comptes report of 1982, Lasry Gagneux report of 1983). Handicap thus explicited is twice impossible. In the first place the whole field of handicap is built upon a strong relationship between official services and the invalids while at the same time the law gives the committees total freedom to choose and change their definition of handicap. In the second place the fact of giving such a central place to invalidity and to the relationship between official services and invalids tends to deny the very characters of handicap. P.H.N. Wood's concept as published under the authority of World Health Organization, provides a possible definition of handicap in as much as it states its social nature (to be differentiated from invalidity) and it grants equal importance to the three interactions: person-state, state-milieu, and person-milieu.
authors.affiliation: Psychiatre des hôpitaux, centre hospitalier général, Saint-Quentin.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Chapireau
mesh_terms: D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000145:classification; D005602:France; D006296:Health Services; D006801:Humans; D007878:Legislation as Topic; D012947:Social Work; D014825:Vocabulary
vernacular_title: Le handicap impossible. Analyse de la notion de handicap dans la loi d'orientation du 30 juin 1975. 1re partie (1).