Disability in practice: attitudes, policies, and relationships

by Cureton, Adam Steven Hill, Thomas E.

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Title Statements

Full title :Disability in practice : attitudes, policies, and relationships / edited by Adam Cureton and Thomas E. Hill, Jr.

Summary

"Everyone is disabled in some respect, at least in the sense that others can do things that we cannot. But significant limitations on pursuing major life activities due to severely limited eyesight, hearing, mobility, cognitive functioning and so on pose special problems that fortunately have been recognized (to some extent) in our public policies. Public policy is important, as are the deliberative frameworks that we use to justify them, and the essays in the second and third sections of this volume have significant implications for public policy and offer new proposals for justifying frameworks. Underlying public policies and their assessment, however, are the attitudes, good and bad, that we bring to them, and our attitudes as well deeply affect our interpersonal relationships. The essays here, especially in the first section, reveal how complex and problematic our attitudes towards persons with disabilities are when we are in relationships with them as care-givers, friends, family members, or briefly encountered strangers. Our attitudes towards ourselves as persons with (or without) disabilities are implicated in these discussions as well. Among the special highlights of this volume are its focus on moral attitudes and relationships involving disabilities and its contributors' recognition of the multi-faceted nature of disability problems. The importance of respect for persons as a necessary complement to beneficence is an underlying theme, and a deeper understanding of respect is made possible by considering closely its implications for relationships with persons with disabilities. Awareness of the common and uncommon human vulnerabilities also makes clear the need for modifying traditional deliberative frameworks for assessing policies, and several essays make constructive proposals for the changes that are needed." -- Publisher's description.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2018
Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2018

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 249 pages ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0198812876, 9780198812876
oclc:on1017599115
LC Classification:HV1568
Dewey Decimal:305.9/08

Subjects

DISABILITIES Disabilities -- Moral and ethical aspec… Disabilities -- Social aspects Handicap People with disabilities -- Civil rights People with disabilities -- Government … People with disabilities -- Legal statu… People with disabilities -- Public opin… Personnes handicapées -- Droits Personnes handicapées -- Politique gouv…