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

• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 391 pages)
• Disciplina: 362.4
• Soggetto topico: People with disabilities; Sociology of disability; Disabilities; Social justice; Public welfare; Persons with Disabilities; Social Theory; Social Justice; Sociology
• Soggetto genere / forma: Conference papers and proceedings.; Congress
• Persona (resp. second.): BrownleeKimberley <1978->; CuretonAdam Steven <1981->
• Note generali: 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.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- References -- 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 -- References -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Disability and disadvantage
• ISBN: 9786612336584; 9780191569968; 0191569968; 9780191809804; 0191809802; 9781282336582; 1282336584; 9780199698417; 0199698414
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910958074503321
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