Description
| Summary: | Elizabeth Barnes argues compellingly that disability is primarily a social phenomenon- a way of being a minority, a way of facing social oppression, but not a way of being inherently or intrinsically worse off. This is how disability is understood in the Disability Rights and Disability Pride movements; but there is a massive disconnect with the way disability is typically viewed within analytic philosophy. The idea that disability is not inherently bad or sub-optimal is one that many philosophers treat with open skepticism, and sometimes even with scorn. The goal of this book is to articulate and defend a version of the view of disability that is common in the Disability Rights movement.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 200 pages) |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-197) and index. |
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| ISBN: | 9780191796814
0191796816
0191046558
9780191046551 |
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| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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