Disability Ethics and Preferential Justice - A Catholic Perspective

"Disability is a global reality which we do not acknowledge. As a result, too few people without immediate experience of persons with disability remain unconcerned with this largest and most diverse minority of people across the globe (at least 15 percent of the world's population). Moreover, the likelihood of able-bodied/able-minded persons joining this minority increases over the lifespan, with for example, Alzheimer's, arthritis, depression, diabetes, heart disease, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's, and other conditions being very common around the world. No geographic location is immune from this prevalence, though poverty increases and exacerbates vulnerability to being born with or acquiring a disability in one's lifetime. Disability Ethics and Preferential Justice is one response to a dearth of theo-ethical reflection on disability, arguing that justice requires a preferential safeguard for persons and communities of people with disability. The book makes this argument by presenting a Trinitarian theological anthropology on the imago Dei and applying the liberation lens of Catholic Social Teaching with a preferential justice for those who are poor and otherwise marginalized, oppressed, or silenced on account of their disability"--

About the author

Mary Jo Iozzio is a professor of moral theology at the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. She is the author of Self-determination and the Moral Act: A Study of the Contributions of Odon Lottin, OSB and Radical Dependence: A Theo-anthropological Ethic in the Key of Disability (forthcoming).

Product details

• Authors: Mary Jo Iozzio, Iozzio Mary Jo
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2023
• EAN: 9781647123093
• ISBN: 978-1-64712-309-3
• No. of pages: 152
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 216 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, RELIGION / Ethics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Religious ethics, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights