The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Disability

by Adam Cureton, David Wasserman

Overview

Disability raises profound and fundamental issues: questions about human embodiment and well-being; dignity, respect, justice and equality; personal and social identity. It raises pressing questions for educational, health, reproductive, and technology policy, and confronts the scope and direction of the human and civil rights movements. Yet it is only recently that disability has become the subject of the sustained and rigorous philosophical inquiry that it deserves.

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Disability is the first comprehensive volume on the subject. The volume's contents range from debates over the definition of disability to the challenges posed by disability for justice and dignity; from the relevance of disability for respect, other interpersonal attitudes, and intimate relationships to its significance for health policy, biotechnology, and human enhancement; from the ways that disability scholarship can enrich moral and political philosophy, to the importance of physical and intellectual disabilities for the philosophy of mind and action. The contributions reflect the variety of areas of expertise, intellectual orientations, and personal backgrounds of their authors. Some are founding philosophers of disability; others are promising new scholars; still others are leading philosophers from other areas writing on disability for the first time. Many have disabilities themselves. This volume boldly explores neglected issues, offers fresh perspectives on familiar ones, and ultimately expands philosophy's boundaries. More than merely presenting an overview of existing work, this Handbook will chart the growth and direction of a vital and burgeoning field for years to come.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780190622879
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	06/23/2020
Series:	Oxford Handbooks
Pages:	848
Product dimensions:	9.80(w) x 6.90(h) x 2.20(d)

About the Author

Adam Cureton is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee. He co-edited (with Kimberley Brownlee) Disability and Disadvantage (2009) and (with Thomas E. Hill) Disability in Practice: Attitudes Policies and Relationships (2018), both for Oxford University Press. He is the President of the Society for Philosophy and Disability.

David Wasserman is on the faculty of the Clinical Center Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health. He works primarily on ethical and policy issues in disability, genetics, reproduction, and neuroscience. He is co-author, with David Benatar, of Debating Procreation (Oxford, 2015).

Table of Contents

Introduction
Adam Cureton and David Wasserman

Part I: Concepts, Models and Perspectives of Disability
Chapter 1: In Pursuit of Justice for Disability: Model Neutrality Revisited
Anita Silvers
Chapter 2: Theoretical Strategies to Define Disability
Jonas-Sébastien Beaudry
Chapter 3: Disability, Health, and Difference
Jerome Bickenbach
Chapter 4: Habilitative Health and Disability
Lawrence C. Becker
Chapter 5: Philosophy and the Apparatus of Disability
Shelley L. Tremain
Chapter 6: Disability Liberation Theology
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

Part II: Well-Being, Adaptation, and Causing Disability
Chapter 7: Disabilities and Wellbeing: The Bad and the Neutral
Joshua Shepherd
Chapter 8: Causing Disability, Causing Non-Disability: What's the Moral Difference?
Joseph A. Stramondo and Stephen M. Campbell
Chapter 9: Why Inflicting Disability is Wrong: The Mere Difference View and The Causation Based Objection
Julia Mosquera
Chapter 10: Evaluative Diversity and the (Ir)Relevance of Well-Being
Sean Aas

Part III: Justice, Equality, and Inclusion
Chapter 11: Contractualism, Disability, and Inclusion
Christie Hartley
Chapter 12: Civic Republican Disability Justice
Tom O'Shea
Chapter 13: Disability and Disadvantage in the Capabilities Approach
Christopher A. Riddle
Chapter 14: Disability and Partial Compliance Theory
Leslie Francis
Chapter 15: Fair Difference of Opportunity
Adam Cureton and Alexander Kaufman
Chapter 16: The Disability Case against Assisted Dying
Danny Scoccia

Part IV: Knowledge and Embodiment
Chapter 17: Epistemic Exclusion, Injustice, and Disability
Jackie Leach Scully
Chapter 18: What's Wrong With "You Say You're Happy, But " Reasoning?
Jason Marsh
Chapter 19: Interactions with Delusional Others: Reflections on Epistemic Failures and Virtues
Josh Dohmen
Chapter 20: Disability, Rationality, and Justice: Disambiguating Adaptive Preferences
Jessica Begon

Part V: Respect, Appreciation, and Care
Chapter 21: Ideals of Appreciation and Expressions of Respect
Thomas E. Hill, Jr.
Chapter 22: The Limiting Role of Respect
Adam Cureton
Chapter 23: Respect, Identification, and Profound Cognitive Impairment
John Vorhaus
Chapter 24: Care and Disability: Friends or Foes
Eva Kittay
Chapter 25: A Dignitarian Approach to Disability: From Moral Status to Social Status
Linda Barclay

Part VI: Moral Status and Significant Mental Disabilities
Chapter 26: Cognitive Disability and Moral Status
Alice Crary
Chapter 27: Dignity, Respect, and Cognitive Disability
Suzy Killmister
Chapter 28: On Moral Status and Intellectual Disability: Challenging and Expanding the Debates
Licia Carlson

Part VI: Intellectual and Psychiatric Disability
Chapter 29: Neurodiversity, Autism, and Psychiatric Disability: The Harmful Dysfunction Perspective
Jerome C. Wakefield, David Wasserman, and Jordan A. Conrad
Chapter 30: Beyond Instrumental Value: Respecting the Will of Others and Deciding on Their Behalf
Dana Howard and David Wendler
Chapter 31: Educational Justice for People with Intellectual Disabilities
Lorella Terzi

Part VIII: Technology and Enhancement
Chapter 32: A Symmetrical View of Disability and Enhancement
Stephen M. Campbell and David Wasserman
Chapter 33: Cognitive Disability and Embodied, Extended Minds
Zoe Drayson and Andy Clark
Chapter 34: The Visible and the Invisible: Disability, Assistive Technology, and Stigma
Coreen McGuire and Havi Carel
Chapter 35: Neurotechnologies and Justice by, with, and for Disabled People
Sara Goering and Eran Klein
Chapter 36: Second Thoughts on Enhancement and Disability
Melinda C. Hall

Part IX: Healthcare Allocation and Assisted Death
Chapter 37: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis and Disability Discrimination
Greg Bognar
Chapter 38: Prioritisation and Parity. Which Disabled Newborn Infants Should be Candidates for Scarce Life-Saving Treatment?
Dominic JC Wilkinson and Julian Savulescu

Part X: Reproduction and Parenting
Chapter 39: Why People with Cognitive Disabilities are Justified in Feeling Disquieted by Prenatal Testing and Selective Termination
Chris Kaposy
Chapter 40: Reproductive Choice, in Context: Avoiding Excess and Deficiency?
Richard Hull and Tom Shakespeare
Chapter 41: Bioethics, Disability, and Selective Reproductive Technology: Taking Intersectionality Seriously
Christian Munthe
Chapter 42: Procreation and Intellectual Disability: A Kantian Approach
Samuel J. Kerstein
Chapter 43: Parental Autonomy, Children with Disabilities, and Horizontal Identities
Mary Crossley

Editorial Reviews

"The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Disability gives us a cohesive portrayal of current Anglo-American thinking and debate about the central conceptions of disability within the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of Medical Humanities." — R.A. Goodrich, Ph.D., Metapsychology Online Reviews

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