Respecting disability : attitudes, ideals, and relationships / Adam Cureton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cureton, Adam Steven, 1981- author.

Series:

Oxford studies in disability, ethics, and society.

Oxford studies in disability, ethics, and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

People with disabilities--Services for.

People with disabilities--Public opinion.

People with disabilities--Attitudes.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2025.

Summary:

Proper treatment of people with disabilities involves how people interact with them in interpersonal contexts, what kinds of attitudes people have toward them, how others relate to them, and how people with disabilities regard and treat themselves. Written by an expert in the field, this text examines these important topics.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Attitudes toward Disabled People

2. Method

3. Summary of the Chapters

a. Part I: Self-Respect of People with Disabilities

b. Part II: Respect for People with Disabilities

c. Part III: Respecting Disability in Practice

Part I Self-Respect of People with Disabilities

1 Hiding a Disability and Passing as Non-Disabled

1. Passing

2. How to Pass as Non-Disabled

3. Social Circumstances

4. Benefits of Passing as Non-Disabled

5. Costs to Passing as Non-Disabled

6. Further Reflections on Whether or Not to Pass as Non-Disabled

7. Alternative Policies to Passing as Non-Disabled

8. Conclusion

2 Gaming the System?: Justice, Fairness, and Disability Accommodations

1. Initial Reactions

2. Entitlements of Justice

a. The Standard Argument

b. A Challenge for the Standard Argument

c. Supplementing the Standard Argument

3. Duties of Justice

4. Ideals of Justice

5. Fulfilling Entitlements

6. Affirmative Action

3 Depending on the Undependable: Disability, Fragility, and Instability

1. Disability Accommodation Systems

a. Efficiency, Justice, and Ease of Use

b. Dependability as Robustness and Undependability as Fragility

c. Dependability as Stability and Undependability as Instability

2. Robustness and Fragility, Stability, and Instability

3. Evaluating Disability Accommodation Systems by Their Dependability

a. Consequences of Failures

b. Psychological Impacts on Disabled People

4. Differences in Social Attitudes

5. Concluding Note

4 Prudence and Responsibility to Self in an Identity Crisis

1. Lois's Identity Crisis

2. Prudential Rationality and Pure Time Preference

3. Prudential Rationality and Temporal Neutrality

4. Criticisms of Responsibility to Self

5. Momentary Selves

6. A Partial Prudential Framework

7. Reasoning from the Prudential Framework

8. Lois's Decision

Part II Respect for People with Disabilities

5 Ideals of Respect: Identity, Dignity, and Disability

1. Aims and Methods

2. Example: Kristen's Night Out

3. Kinds of Respect

4. Objects of Respect: Dignity, Excellence, and Status

a. Basic Respect

b. Appraisal Respect and Status Respect

5. Objects of Respect: Identity

6. Respecting the Identity of Persons

7. Identity Respect as a Moral Ideal

6 Some Virtues of Disability

1. Common Attitudes toward Disabled People

2. Acquiring Attitudes about Disability

3. Ideal Attitudes: Respect, Acceptance, and Appreciation

4. Final Remarks

7 The Limiting Role of Respect

1. Disabled Strangers

2. Aspects of Human Dignity

a. Welfare

b. Community

c. Justice

d. Appreciation

e. Positive Respect

3. Negative Respect

a. Making Assumptions about Others

b. Privacy

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on November 20, 2025).

Other Format:

Print version: Cureton, Adam, Respecting disability : attitudes, ideals, and relationships,

ISBN:

9780197775042

0197775047

OCLC:

1534422320

Publisher Number:

CIPO000285324

Access Restriction:

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