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Disability with Dignity - Justice, Human Rights and Equal Status (Paperback)
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Disability with Dignity - Justice, Human Rights and Equal Status (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Applied Ethics
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Philosophical interest in disability is rapidly expanding.
Philosophers are beginning to grasp the complexity of disability-as
a category, with respect to well-being and as a marker of identity.
However, the philosophical literature on justice and human rights
has often been limited in scope and somewhat abstract. Not enough
sustained attention has been paid to the concrete claims made by
people with disabilities, concerning their human rights, their
legal entitlements and their access to important goods, services
and resources. This book discusses how effectively philosophical
approaches to distributive justice and human rights can support
these concrete claims. It argues that these approaches often fail
to lend clear support to common disability demands, revealing both
the limitations of existing philosophical theories and the inflated
nature of some of these demands. Moving beyond entitlements, the
author also develops a unique conception of dignity, which she
argues illuminates the specific indignities experienced by people
with disabilities in the allocation of goods, in the common
experience of discrimination and in a wide range of interpersonal
interactions. Disability with Dignity offers an accessible and
extended philosophical discussion of disability, justice and human
rights. It provides a comprehensive assessment of the benefits and
pitfalls of theories of human rights and justice for advancing
justice for the disabled. It brings the moral importance of dignity
to the centre, arguing that justice must be pursued in a way that
preserves and promotes the dignity of people with disabilities.
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