In this groundbreaking work, leading philosophers, legal theorists, bioethicists, and policy makers offer incisive looks into the philosophical and moral foundations of disability law and policy.
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With this pathbreaking book, two of the nation's leading social philosophers have pushed disabled Americans out of the shadows and into the limelight where they belong...Anyone who works on health, education, welfare and civil rights issues will need to read this book. -- Anita L. Allen, University of Pennsylvania Law School
This is an important book. Its collected essays come to grips directly with the most important issues of law, policy and morality involving Americans with disabilities. The authors...will make every reader think more carefully about how best to insure justice for the disabled. -- Thomas Ehrlich, The Carnegie Foundation on the Advancement of Teaching
This comprehensive anthology is a major step in the development of disability studies in philosophy and legal scholarship. It takes philosophy of disability beyond the 'you too' afterthoughts added to discussions of social justice and demonstrates that issues raised by disability are critical to contemporary social philosophy. -- Susan Wendell, author of The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability
Leading philosophers, scholars and lawyers offer a perceptive philosophical andlegal analysis of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). If you care about the future prospects of people with disabilities, you will want to read this very important book. -- Bimonthly Revew of Law Books/ May-June 2001
This is an important book. Its collected essays come to grips directly with the most important issues of law, policy and morality involving Americans with disabilities. The authors...will make every reader think more carefully about how best to insure justice for the disabled. -- Thomas Ehrlich, The Carnegie Foundation on the Advancement of Teaching
This comprehensive anthology is a major step in the development of disability studies in philosophy and legal scholarship. It takes philosophy of disability beyond the 'you too' afterthoughts added to discussions of social justice and demonstrates that issues raised by disability are critical to contemporary social philosophy. -- Susan Wendell, author of The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability
Leading philosophers, scholars and lawyers offer a perceptive philosophical andlegal analysis of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). If you care about the future prospects of people with disabilities, you will want to read this very important book. -- Bimonthly Revew of Law Books/ May-June 2001
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Leslie Francis is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah. Anita Silvers is Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University.
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Civil rights statutes may reflect a wide variety of approaches to justice and rights. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
health care resource prioritization, disability status matter, same native talent, other civil rights statutes, protection against disability discrimination, wrongful birth claims, normal imperfections, functional determinism, correctable impairments, common social environment, verdict data, expensive preferences, disability discrimination law, antidiscrimination norm, stigmatic injury, social lottery, modern advanced societies, impairment requirement, welfare prospects, biological normality, normal opportunity range, limiting impairments, disability theorists, advanced modern societies, functional normality Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Disabilities Act, New York, United States, Rehabilitation Act, Peter David Blanck, Anita Silvers, Disability Discrimination Act, Harvard University Press, David Wasserman, Harlan Hahn, Senator Harkin, Norman Daniels, West Supp, Cambridge University Press, Code Ann, Elaine Wilson, Fair Housing Act, National Council, Oxford University Press, Policy Studies, Princeton University Press, Temple University Press, First Amendment, Iris Marion Young, John Rawls New!
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Civil rights statutes may reflect a wide variety of approaches to justice and rights. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
health care resource prioritization, disability status matter, same native talent, other civil rights statutes, protection against disability discrimination, wrongful birth claims, normal imperfections, functional determinism, correctable impairments, common social environment, verdict data, expensive preferences, disability discrimination law, antidiscrimination norm, stigmatic injury, social lottery, modern advanced societies, impairment requirement, welfare prospects, biological normality, normal opportunity range, limiting impairments, disability theorists, advanced modern societies, functional normality Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Disabilities Act, New York, United States, Rehabilitation Act, Peter David Blanck, Anita Silvers, Disability Discrimination Act, Harvard University Press, David Wasserman, Harlan Hahn, Senator Harkin, Norman Daniels, West Supp, Cambridge University Press, Code Ann, Elaine Wilson, Fair Housing Act, National Council, Oxford University Press, Policy Studies, Princeton University Press, Temple University Press, First Amendment, Iris Marion Young, John Rawls New!
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- Disability, Difference, Discrimination: Perspectives on Justice in Bioethics and Public Policy (Point/Counterpoint: Philosophers Debate Contemporary Issues) by Anita Silvers on 6 pages
- The Theory of Communicative Action: Lifeworld and Systems, a Critique of Functionalist Reason, Volume 2 by Jurgen Habermas (Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt); Translated by: Thomas McCarthy (Northwestern University) on page 361, page 368, and page 369
- Implementing the Americans With Disabilities Act by Jane West on page 291, and page 292
- The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability by Susan Wendell on page 207, and page 243
- Life and Death: Philosophical Essays in Biomedical Ethics (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy) by Dan W. Brock on page 109, and Back Matter
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- Disabled Rights: American Disability Policy and the Fight for Equality by Jacqueline Vaughn on 8 pages
- Americans with Disabilities by Leslie Francis on 8 pages
- When Walking Fails: Mobility Problems of Adults with Chronic Conditions by Lisa Iezzoni on 6 pages
- Science and Other Cultures: Issues in Philosophies of Science and Technology by Sandra Harding on 5 pages
- Quality of Life and Human Difference: Genetic Testing, Health Care, and Disability (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy) by David Wasserman on 5 pages
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