| Description |
1 online resource (x, 330 pages). |
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data file |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Series |
Cambridge disability, law and policy series
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Cambridge disability, law and policy series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Moral Worth and Severe Intellectual Disability : A Hybrid View / Benjamin L. Curtis and Simo Vhmas -- "Something Else"? : Cognitive Disability and the Human Form of Life / Barbara Schmitz -- Disability (Not) as a Harmful Condition : The Received View Challenged / Thomas Schramme -- Nasty, Brutish and Short? On the Predicament of Disability and Embodiment / Tom Shakespeare -- Recognizing Disability / Halvor Hanisch -- Understanding the Relationship between Disability and Well-Being / David Wasserman and Adrienne Asch -- Disability and the Well-Being Agenda / Jerome E. Bickenbach -- Disability and Quality of Life : An Aristotelian Discussion / Hans S. Reinders -- Living a Good Life ... in Adult-Size Diapers / Anna Stubblefield -- Ill, but Well : A Phenomenology of Well-Being in Chronic Illness / Havi Carel -- Natural Diversity and Justice for People with Disabilities / Christopher A. Riddle -- Inclusion and the Good Human Life / Franziska Felder. |
| Summary |
This collection of original essays, from both established scholars and newcomers, takes up a debate that has recently flared up in philosophy, sociology, and disability studies on whether disability is intrinsically a harm that lowers a person's quality of life. While this is a new question in disability scholarship, it is also touches on one of the oldest philosophical questions: What is the good human life? Historically, philosophers have not been interested in the topic of disability, and when they are it is usually only in relation to questions such as euthanasia, abortion, or the moral status of disabled people. Consequently, implicitly or explicitly, disability has been either ignored by moral and political philosophers or simply equated with a bad human life, a life not worth living. This collection takes up the challenge that disability poses to basic questions of political philosophy and bioethics, among others, by focusing on fundamental issues as well as practical implications of the relationship between disability and the good human life. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Sociology of disability.
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Sociology of disability. |
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People with disabilities -- Social conditions.
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People with disabilities -- Social conditions. |
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Quality of life.
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Quality of life. |
| Genre/Form |
Essays.
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Electronic books.
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Essays.
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| Added Author |
Bickenbach, Jerome Edmund, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Disability and the good human life 9781139225632 (DLC) 2013023411 (OCoLC)850909423 |
| ISBN |
9781461953760 (electronic book) |
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1461953766 (electronic book) |
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9781139225632 (electronic book) |
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1139225634 (electronic book) |
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9781107703698 (e-book) |
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1107703697 (e-book) |
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9781107027183 |
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1107027187 |
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9781107545830 (paperback) |
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