Disability through the lens of justice /

In Disability through the Lens of Justice, Jessica Begon considers how disabled individuals should be justly treated in the public policy of liberal democratic states. She seeks to create an account of disability which takes seriously the diversity of disabled lives, an approach that enables individ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Begon, Jessica (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, [2023]
Series:	New topics in applied philosophy.
Subjects:	People with disabilities > Legal status, laws, etc. People with disabilities > Services for > Government policy. Personnes handicapées > Services > Politique gouvernementale. Ethics & Moral Philosophy. PHILOSOPHY. People with Disabilities. SOCIAL SCIENCE. People with disabilities > Services for > Government policy Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law. Law. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction
1 What a disability is not
2 Disability: a justice-based account
3 Disability and distribution: a capability approach
4 Capabilities for control
5 Neutral impairment, disadvantageous disability
6 Disambiguating adaptive preferences: when, and why, should testimony be trusted?
7 Don't do it for my sake: providing control, avoiding paternalism, and applying the justice account of disability.