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Book SynopsisIn Disability through the Lens of Justice, Jessica Begon considers how disabled individuals should be justly treated in the public policy of liberal democratic states. She seeks to create an account of disability which takes seriously the diversity of disabled lives, an approach that enables individuals to exercise broadly-specified opportunities
Table of Contents1: What Disability Is Not 2: Disability: A Justice-Based Account 3: Disability and Distribution: A Capability Approach 4: Capabilities for Control 5: Neutral Impairment, Disadvantageous Disability 6: Disambiguating Adaptive Preferences: When, and Why, Should Testimony Be Trusted? 7: Don't Do It For My Sake: Providing Control, Avoiding Paternalism, and Applying the Justice Account of Disability