Description
Book SynopsisThe formerly established medically-based idea of disability, with its charity-based approach to treatment and services, is being replaced by a human rights-based approach in which people with impairments are no longer considered medical problems, totally dependent on the beneficence of non-impaired people in society, but have fundamental rights to support, inclusion, and participation. This interdisciplinary book examines the diverse concerns that people with impairments face in the context of human rights, provides insights into new developments on important issues relating human rights to disability, and features new approaches and solutions to vital problems in the current debate.
Trade ReviewDisability human rights talk is ubiquitous, but disability human rights thought is scarce. This book helps fill that gap, by subjecting human rights rhetoric to rigorous but supportive interrogation. An excellent roster of authors show us what is needed to promote the flourishing of disabled people. Professor Tom Shakespeare, University of East Anglia.
Table of ContentsTable of Contents
Acknowledgment *
Chapter 1 General Introduction: Human Rights and Disability - Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Alicia Oullette *
Part 1: Human Rights and Disability – Different Voices *
Chapter 2 Remarks on a Disability-Conscious Bioethics
John-Stewart Gordon *
Chapter 3 Theology, Disability, and Human Rights: Difficult Past, Promising Future
Johann-Christian Põder *
Part 2: Human Development and Inclusion *
Chapter 4 Grounding Disability and Human Rights with the Capabilities Approach
Christopher A. Riddle *
Chapter 5 Human Rights and Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: An Elusive but Emerging Paradigm
Donato Tarulli, Dorothy Griffiths and Frances Owen *
Chapter 6 On Human Rights and Human Duties: Is there a Moral Obligation to Inclusion?
Holger Burckhart and Bennet Jäger *
Chapter 7 The Right to Inclusive Education: Practical Implications in German Schools
Petr Frantik *
Part 3: Justice and Legal Protection *
Chapter 8 Disability Rights, Legal and Moral
Hans Reinders *
Chapter 9 From Manifesto to Action: Transforming the Aspiration of Disability Human Rights into Accountable Government Action
Jerome Bickenbach *
Chapter 10 Human and Civil Models of Rights: Healthy and Ill Disabled and Access to Healthcare
Anita Silvers and Leslie Pickering Francis *
Chapter 11 Agency and Disability. A Rights-Based Approach
Michael Boylan *
Chapter 12 Afterword
Akiko Ito *
Index *
Contributors *
Bibliography *
