Arguing about Disability : Philosophical Perspectives
by Kristiansen, Kristjana; Vehmas, Simo; Shakespeare, TomPub. Date: 2008-10-17
Publisher(s): Taylor & Francis
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Summary
Disability is a thorny and muddled concept and philosophical issues have often been overlooked in favour of the sociological amongst the controversy. Arguing about Disability fills that gap by offering analysis and debate concerning the moral nature of institutions, policy and practice, and their significance for disabled people and society.
Table of Contents
| Introduction: The Unavoidable Alliance of Disability Studies and Philosophy | |
| Metaphysics | |
| Social Justice and Disability: Competing Interpretations of the Medical and Social Models | |
| Definitions of Disability: Ethical and Other Values | |
| The Ontology of Disability and Impairment: A Discussion of the Natural and Social FeaturesSimo Vehmas | |
| Disability and the Thinking Body | |
| Political Philosophy | |
| Personhood and the Social Inclusion of People with Disabilities: A Recognition-Theoretical Approach | |
| Disability and Freedom | |
| Disability, Non-Talent and Distributive Justice | |
| Us Against Them? The Moral Underpinnings of Community Thinking | |
| Ethics | |
| Cochlear Implants, Linguistic Rights, and 'Open Future' Arguments | |
| The Moral Contestedness of Selecting 'Deaf Embryos' | |
| The Role of Medical Experts in Shaping Disability Law | |
| Prenatal Screening for Down Syndrome: Why We Shouldn't? | |
| Biopolitics and Bare Life: Does the Impaired Body Provide Contemporary Examples of Homo Sacer? | |
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