Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series, Disability and the Good Human Life
edited by Barbara Schmitz, 1968-, Franziska Felder and Jerome Bickenbach, 1948-, in Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2014, originally published 2014), 342 page(s)
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- Abstract / 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.
- Field of Interest
- Disability Studies
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Copyright Message
- Copyright © 2014 Cambridge University Press
- Content Type
- Book
- Duration
- 0 sec
- Format
- Text
- Original Publication Date
- 2014
- Page Count
- 342
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Place Published / Released
- New York, NY
- Subject
- Disability Studies, Diversity, Theory, Independence, Education, & Accessibility, Disabled persons, Philosophy, Quality of life, Theoretical Perspectives, History and Theory, Teoría, Teoria, Accessibility and Independence, History of Care, Independência, Educação e Acessibilidade, Independencia, Educación y Accesibilidad, Education, Early 21st Century United States (2001– )
- Series / Program
- Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
- Keywords and Translated Subjects
- Theoretical Perspectives, History and Theory, Teoría, Teoria, Accessibility and Independence, History of Care, Independência, Educação e Acessibilidade, Independencia, Educación y Accesibilidad, Education
