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The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Disability (Oxford Handbooks) by Adam Cureton (editor), David Wasserman (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 au

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Adam Cureton (editor), David Wasserman (editor)
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published
2018
Language
EN
ISBN
9780190622879
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Philosophy, Social Science, Sociology

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