Disability and disadvantage / edited by Kimberley Brownlee and Adam Cureton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brownlee, Kimberley, 1978- editor.

Cureton, Adam Steven, 1981- ediitor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

People with disabilities--Congresses.

People with disabilities.

Sociology of disability--Congresses.

Sociology of disability.

Disabilities--Congresses.

Disabilities.

Social justice--Congresses.

Social justice.

Public welfare--Congresses.

Public welfare.

Persons with Disabilities.

Social Theory.

Social Justice.

Sociology.

Medical Subjects:

Persons with Disabilities.

Social Theory.

Social Justice.

Sociology.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 391 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Summary:

This book offers a much-needed investigation of moral and political issues concerning disability, in the context of the experiences of people with disabilities. Thirteen new essays examine such topics as the concept of disability, the conditions of justice, the nature of autonomy, healthcare distribution, and reproductive choices.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

1 The Welfarist Account of Disability

1.1. The Everyday Concept

1.2. The Species Norm Account

1.3. 'Germans' and 'Krauts'

1.4. The Social Model Account

1.5. The Welfarist Account

1.6. The Relation of the Welfarist Account to the Everyday Concept of Disability

1.7. The Relation of the Welfarist Account to the Social and Species-Norm Views

1.8. Well-being, Social Arrangements, and the Social Model

1.9. Objections to the Welfarist Account

1.10. Well-being, Disability, and Ability

1.11. The Welfarist Account at Work

1.12. Conclusion

2 Disability, Adaptation, and Inclusion

2.1. Introduction

2.2. Brain Injury, Impairment, and Adaptation: Two Cases

2.3. Health State Evaluations and the Standard Story

2.4. Implications for Conceptualizing Disability

2.5. Implications for Advocacy

References

3 Vagaries of the Natural Lottery? Human Diversity, Disability, and Justice: A Capability Perspective

3.1. Introduction

3.2. Human Diversity, Normality, and Difference in the Social Model of Disability

3.3. A Capability Perspective on Impairment and Disability

3.4. Justifying the Capability Perspective on Impairment and Disability

4 Disability among Equals

4.1. Egalitarian Thought and Disability Policy

4.2. The Good Society

4.3. Creating Opportunities and Remedying Disadvantage

4.4. The Nature of Disability

4.5. Choice of Strategies of Reasons for Personal Enhancement

4.6. Reasons for Status Enhancement

4.7. Disability and Social Policy

4.8. Anti-Discrimination

4.9. Conclusion

5 An Inclusive Contractualism: Obligations to the Mentally Disabled

5.1. The Exclusion of the Mentally Disabled

5.2. The Nature of Contractualist Cooperation.

5.3. From Fair Cooperation to Membership in Society

5.4. Cooperation and the Mentally Disabled

5.5. Conclusion

6 No Talent? Beyond the Worst Off! A Diverse Theory of Justice for Disability

6.1. Outlying

6.2. The Dilemma

6.3. Three Strategies for Justice

6.4. Justice for Talent

6.5. Conclusion

7 Understanding Autonomy in Light of Intellectual Disability

7.1. Autonomy Attributes

7.2. Autonomy as Descriptive and Normative, not Metaphysical

7.3. Being a Subject of Justice

7.4. Autonomy and Responsibility

7.5. Summary

8 Respect without Reason: Relating to Alzheimer's

8.1. Patients with Mid-Stage Alzheimer's

8.2. Relating to Alzheimer's Patients and Relating to Pets

8.3. Identity and Advance Directives

8.4. Autonomy and Critical Interests

8.5. Autonomy and the Capacity to Value

8.6. Valuing, Memory, and a Normative Conception of Oneself

8.7. Respecting Human Beings

9 Radical Cognitive Limitation

9.1. The Radically Cognitively Limited

9.2. Are Cognitively Limited Human Beings Disabled?

9.3. Misfortune as a Matter of Species Membership

9.4. Equality and Priority

10 Disability, Discrimination, and Irrelevant Goods

10.1. General Background to Fairness and Outcome

10.2. QALYs and DALYs

10.3. The Principle of Irrelevant Goods

10.4. Larger Disabilities and the Principles of Irrelevant Goods and Treatment Aim

10.5. More Grounds for not Ignoring Disabilities When Allocating Scarce Resources

10.6. The Causative Principle

10.7. Treatment Aim Principle Modified

10.8. Intrapersonal Quality/Quantity Tradeoffs

10.9. Problems for the Causative Principle

10.10. The Principle of Irrelevant Identity

10.11. Causal and Component Role of Identity in Relation to the Principle of Irrelevant Identity Once Again.

10.12. Views of Discrimination and a Decision Procedure

10.13. Intransitivities

10.14. The Supererogation Argument

11 Ethical Constraints on Allowing or Causing the Existence of People with Disabilities

11.1. The Ideal of Unconditional Welcome

11.2. Allowing and Causing Impairment and the Ideal of Unconditional Welcome

11.3. Justifying Unavoidable Impairments

11.4. Tension between Unconditional Welcome and Justification

11.5. An Additional Challenge for Justified Selectivity

11.6. An Additional Challenge for Unconditional Welcome

11.7. Conclusion

12 Impairment, Flourishing, and the Moral Nature of Parenthood

12.1. A Virtue-Based Approach to Reproductive Ethics

12.2. A Case of Selecting for Impairment

12.3. Two Understandings of the Characteristics Compatible with a Child's Flourishing

12.4. Implications Beyond Selection for Impairment

12.5. Conclusion

13 Projected Disability and Parental Responsibilities

Index

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Notes:

Assembly of philosophers who contributed to this collection, which is the product of two workshops held at the University of Manchester in May 2007 and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in September 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786612336584

9780191569968

0191569968

9780191809804

0191809802

9781282336582

1282336584

9780199698417

0199698414

OCLC:

605489215