Overview
- Provides information on the application of philosophical principles to applied practice.
- Grounds the claim that the absence of disabling barriers is a human right.
- Fills the gap in existing literature concerning what the capabilities approach means for the material lives of people with disabilities.
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About this book
This book presents the argument that health has special moral importance because of the disadvantage one suffers when subjected to impairment or disabling barriers. Christopher A. Riddle asserts that ill health and the presence of disabling barriers are human rights issues and that we require a foundational conception of justice in order to promote the rights of people with disabilities. The claim that disability is a human rights issue is defended on the grounds that people with disabilities experience violations to their dignity, equality, and autonomy. Because human rights exist as a subset of other justice-based rights, Riddle contends that we must support a foundation of justice compatible with endorsing these three principles (equality, dignity, and autonomy). This volume argues that the “capabilities approach” is the best currency of justice for removing the disabling barriers that consistently violate approximately one billion people’s human rights.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Christopher A. Riddle is an Associate Professor & Chair of Philosophy and the Director of the Applied Ethics Institute at Utica College, NY. His work has been published in journals such as The Journal of Social Philosophy; The American Journal of Bioethics; Medicine, Healthcare, & Philosophy; Topoi; and Disability Studies Quarterly. He is also the author of Disability & Justice: The Capabilities Approach in Practice (2014) and the editor of From Disability Theory to Practice (2017).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Human Rights, Disability, and Capabilities
Authors: Christopher A. Riddle
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59993-3
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot New York
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59992-6Published: 22 November 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59993-3Published: 21 November 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 73
Topics: Ethics, Sociology, general, Moral Philosophy, Philosophy, general, Civil Law, Human Rights