Appearance, Disability and the Law

People with disfigurements often face prejudice, exclusion and discrimination in employment and across other life contexts. Law's response to this evidence is flawed both by its own limited and illogical scope and its failure to understand the perspectives of those people who may need to use it. Drawing on interviews with both people with lived experience of disfigurement and employers, the book sketches out different approaches to the complex social problem of discrimination against people with visible differences. It also asks whether, in our changing social context, law should widen its protection beyond disfigurement. Would a protected characteristic of appearance offer viable legal rights to the many millions of us who do not have a disfigurement but who are prone to a few spots, whose ears stick out more than we would like, or who are carrying an extra stone in weight?

Product details

• Authors: Hannah Saunders, Hannah (Queen Mary University of London) Saunders
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.05.2025
• EAN: 9781009605045
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0960504-5
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Cambridge Bioethics and Law
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / Public, LAW / Medical Law & Legislation, Bioethics, Bio-ethics, Medical & healthcare law, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Medical and healthcare law, Disability and the law, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disability