Starting Anew: The ADA's Disability with Respect to Episodic Mental Illness

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dc.contributor.authorCamille A. Nelson
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-30T17:28:24Z
dc.date.available2020-09-30T17:28:24Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.description.abstractAlthough lay people frequently conflate a diagnosis of mental illness with the existence of a disability, these concepts should properly be separated. The inclination towards conflation might be diminished by reference to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) distinction between the existence of a disability and the legal ability to recover under the ADA. Specifically, under the ADA the claimant must not only establish a disability, which is a physical or mental impairment, but this impairment must "substantially limit one or more major life activities."' A disability is "an alteration of an individual's capacity to meet personal, social, or occupational demands or statutory or regulatory requirements, because of impairment."' Impairment, on the other hand, is "seen as a purely medical judgment, whereas the disability created by the impairment is context specific."
dc.format.extent24 pages
dc.identifier.citationCamille A. Nelson, Starting Anew: The ADA's Disability with Respect to Episodic Mental Illness, 75 Miss. L.J. 1039 (2006).
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/69993
dc.language.isoEnglish
dc.publisherMississippi Law Journal
dc.relation.ispartofseriesCamille Nelson
dc.titleStarting Anew: The ADA's Disability with Respect to Episodic Mental Illness
dc.typeArticle
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prism.endingpage1062
prism.startingpage1039

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