Arguing about Disability (eBook, ePUB)

Philosophical Perspectives
Redaktion: Kristiansen, Kristjana; Shakespeare, Tom; Vehmas, Simo

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134049738
• Artikelnr.: 38243577

Autorenporträt

Kristjana Kristiansen is Associate Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. Simo Vehmas is Professor at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Tom Shakespeare is Research Fellow at the Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences Research Institute (PEALS), Newcastle University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Unavoidable Alliance of Disability Studies and Philosophy
Part 1: Metaphysics 1. Social Justice and Disability: Competing
Interpretations of the Medical and Social Models 2. Definitions of
Disability: Ethical and Other Values 3. The Ontology of Disability and
Impairment: A Discussion of the Natural and Social Features 4. Disability
and the Thinking Body Part 2: Political Philosophy 1. Personhood and the
Social Inclusion of People with Disabilities: A Recognition-Theoretical
Approach 2. Disability and Freedom 3. Disability, Non-Talent and
Distributive Justice 4. Gender, Disability and Personal Identity: Moral and
Political Problems in Community Thinking Part 3: Ethics 1. Cochlear
Implants, Linguistic Rights, and 'Open Future' Arguments 2. The Moral
Contestedness of Selecting 'Deaf Embryos' 3. The Role of Medical Experts in
Shaping Disability Law 4. Prenatal Screening for Down Syndrome: Why We
Shouldn't? 5. Biopolitics and Bare Life: Does the Impaired Body Provide
Contemporary Examples of Homo Sacer?