Disability in Practice Attitudes, Policies, and Relationships

by Cureton, Adam; Hill, Jr., Thomas E.

• ISBN13: 9780198812876
• ISBN10: 0198812876
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2018-09-26
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Adam Cureton, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee, works primarily on ethics, Kant, and disability. He co-edited (with Kimberley Brownlee) Disability and Disadvantage (2009) and he is currently co-editing (with David Wasserman) the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Disability. He is the President of the Society for Philosophy and Disability.

Thomas E. Hill, Jr., Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is author of essays in moral and political philosophy collected in Autonomy and Self-Respect (1991), Dignity and Practical Reason in Kant's Moral Theory (1992), Respect, Pluralism, and Justice (2000), Human Welfare and Moral Worth (2002), and Virtue, Rules, and Justice (2012).

Table of Contents

Introduction, Adam Cureton and Thomas E. Hill, Jr.
Part I. Attitudes and Relationships
1. Hiding a Disability and Passing as Non-Disabled, Adam Cureton
2. Beneficence and Disability, Sarah Holtman
3. Pretending Not to Notice: Respect, Attention, and Disability, Oliver Sensen
4. Respect for Human Beings with Intellectual Disabilities, Oliver Sensen
Part II. Attitudes and Policies
5. Not Alive Yet, J. David Velleman
6. Respect, Regret, and Reproductive Choice, David Sussman
7. Neurodiversity and the Rejection of Cures, Richard Dean
8. "I Would Rather Die Than Live Like This": When the Newly Disabled Refuse Life Sustaining Treatment, Andrew M. Courtwright
Part III. Justifying Frameworks
9. Disability, Basic Justice, and Habilitation into Basic Good Health, Lawrence C. Becker
10. Contractarian Justice and Severe Cognitive Disabilities, Samuel Freeman
11. Obligations to the Cognitively Impaired in Nonstructured Contexts, Richard Galvin
12. Moral Disability, Moral Injury and the Flight from Vulnerability, Virginia L. Warren