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Everyone is disabled in some respect - others can do things that we cannot - but significant limitations on pursuing major life activities pose special problems. This volume presents new philosophical engagements with moral attitudes and relationships involving disabilities, and with public policy and the deliberative framework for assessing it.
Sommario
- Introduction
- Part I. Attitudes and Relationships
- 1: Adam Cureton: Hiding a Disability and Passing as Non-Disabled
- 2: Sarah Holtman: Beneficence and Disability
- 3: Karen Stohr: Pretending Not to Notice: Respect, Attention, and Disability
- 4: Oliver Sensen: Respect for Human Beings with Intellectual Disabilities
- Part II. Attitudes and Policies
- 5: J. David Velleman: Not Alive Yet
- 6: David Sussman: Respect, Regret, and Reproductive Choice
- 7: Richard Dean: Neurodiversity and the Rejection of Cures
- 8: Andrew M. Courtwright: "I Would Rather Die Than Live Like This": When the Newly Disabled Refuse Life Sustaining Treatment
- Part III. Justifying Frameworks
- 9: Lawrence C. Becker: Disability, Basic Justice, and Habilitation into Basic Good Health
- 10: Samuel Freeman: Contractarian Justice and Severe Cognitive Disabilities
- 11: Richard Galvin: Obligations to the Cognitively Impaired in Nonstructured Contexts
- 12: Virginia L. Warren: Moral Disability, Moral Injury and the Flight from Vulnerability
Info autore
Adam Cureton, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee, works primarily on ethics, Kant, and disability. He co-edited (with Kimberley Brownlee) Disability and Disadvantage (2009) and he is currently co-editing (with David Wasserman) the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Disability. He is the President of the Society for Philosophy and Disability.
Thomas E. Hill, Jr., Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is author of essays in moral and political philosophy collected in Autonomy and Self-Respect (1991), Dignity and Practical Reason in Kant's Moral Theory (1992), Respect, Pluralism, and Justice (2000), Human Welfare and Moral Worth (2002), and Virtue, Rules, and Justice (2012).
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Everyone is disabled in some respect - others can do things that we cannot - but significant limitations on pursuing major life activities pose special problems. This volume presents new philosophical engagements with moral attitudes and relationships involving disabilities, and with public policy and the deliberative framework for assessing it.
