Philosophical Reflections on Disability

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ralston, D. Christopher (Editor), Ho, Justin Hubert (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
• Series: Philosophy and Medicine, 104
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Medicine > Philosophy.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Political philosophy.; Medicine.; Medical ethics.; Sociology.; Social Sciences.; Sociology, general.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.; Philosophy of Medicine.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.; Political Philosophy.

This project draws together the diverse strands of the debate regarding disability in a way never before combined in a single volume. After providing a representative sampling of competing philosophical approaches to the conceptualization of disability as such, the volume goes on to address such the...