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Author Riddle, Christopher A., author.

Title Disabilities and justice : the capabilities approach in practice / Christopher A. Riddle ; foreword by Jerome E. Bickenbach.

Publication Info. Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2014.
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (126 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Disability and Justice -- Defining Disability -- The Capabilities Approach -- The Indexing Problem -- Stigma-Sensitivity -- The Special Moral Importance of Health -- Capabilities and Disability.
Summary "Disability & Justice: The Capabilities Approach in Practice examines the capabilities approach and how, as a matter of justice, the experience of disability is accounted for. It suggests that the capabilities approach is first, unable to properly diagnose both those who are in need as well as the extent to which assistance is required. Furthermore, it is suggested that counterfactually, if this approach to justice were capable of assessing need, that it would fail to be as stigma-sensitive as other approaches of justice. That is to say, the capabilities approach would have the possibility of further stigmatizing those requiring accommodation. Finally, Disability & Justice argues that health and the absence of disability belong in a category of functionings that are of special moral importance--a fact the Capabilities Approach fails to recognize."--Publisher's website.
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Subject People with disabilities.
People with disabilities.
Social justice.
Social justice.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Bickenbach, Jerome E., author of introduction, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Riddle, Christopher A. Disabilities and justice : the capabilities approach in practice. Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, ©2014 xvi, 109 pages 9780739178027
ISBN 9780739178034 (electronic book)
0739178032 (electronic book)
9780739178027
0739178024