Disability and Justice
The Capabilities Approach in Practice
1st Edition
Published on 14. March 2014
126 pages
978-0-7391-7803-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
4 BW Illustrations
ISBN-13
978-0-7391-7803-4 (9780739178034)
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Book
03/2014
Lexington Books
€109.00
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Persons
Christopher A. Riddle is assistant professor and chair in the Department of Philosophy at Utica College, where he is also director of the Applied Ethics Institute.
Content
1 Disability and Justice
2 Defining Disability
3 The Capabilities Approach
4 The Indexing Problem
5 Stigma-Sensitivity
6 The Special Moral Importance of Health
7 Capabilities and Disability
2 Defining Disability
3 The Capabilities Approach
4 The Indexing Problem
5 Stigma-Sensitivity
6 The Special Moral Importance of Health
7 Capabilities and Disability
