Americans with disabilities : exploring implications of the law for individuals and institutions
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Americans with disabilities : exploring implications of the law for individuals and institutions
Routledge, 2000
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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In this groundbreaking work, leading philosophers, legal theorists, bioethicists, and policy makers offer incisive looks into the philosophical and moral foundations of disability law and policy.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION Achieving the Right to Live in the World:Americans with Disabilities and the Civil Rights Tradition Leslie Francis and Anita SilversPART A Foundations: Justice, Goodness, and Disability RightsIntroductionPositively Disabled: The Relationship between the Definition of Disability and Rights under the ADA Patricia Illingworth and Wendy E. ParmetDisability, Discrimination and Priority Richard J. ArnesonJustice for People with Disabilities: The Semiconsequentialist Approach Thomas PoggeThe Good of Agency Lawrence C. BeckerAt Home with My Daughter Eva Feder KittayThe Need for a Standard of Care Alasdair MacIntyrePART B Definitions: Who is Disabled? Who is Protected?IntroductionDoes Disability Status Matter? Mark KelmanBiological Normality and the ADA Ronald AmundsunImpairment and Embodiment Mary CrossleyThe Supreme Court's Near-Sighted View of the ADA Arlene Mayerson and Matthew DillerThe Unprotected: Constructing Disability in the Context of Anti-Discrimination Law Anita SilversStigma without Impairment: Demedicalizing Disability Discrimination David WassermanPART C Practical Applications: Work, Health, Congress, and the CourtsIntroductionPART C-1 WorkDisability and the Definition of Work Iris Marion YoungDisability and the Right to Work Gregory KavkaMarket Failure and the ADA Title I Michael Ashley SteinStudying Disability, Employment Policy and the ADA Peter David BlanckPART C-2 HealthHealth Care Resource Prioritization and Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities Dan W. BrockUtility, Equality and Health Care Needs of Persons with Disabilities:Interpreting the ADA's Requirement of Reasonable Accommodations David OrentlicherIllness and Disablement Joel FeinbergMental Disabilities, Equal Opportunity and the ADA Norman DanielsPART C-3 Congress and the CourtsDisputing the Doctrine of Benign Neglect: A Challenge to the Disparate Treatment of Americans with Disabilities Harlan HahnMaking Change: The ADA as an Instrument of Social Reform Richard K. ScotchTen Years Later: The ADA and the Future of Disability Policy Andrew BataviaADA Title III: A Fragile Compromise Ruth ColkerCourts and Wrongful Birth: Can Disability Itself Be Viewed as a Legal Wrong? Lori B. Andrews and Michelle HibbertGo to the Margins of the Class: Hate Crimes and Disability Lennard J DavisPART D Viewing US Law from Elsewhere: Canada, the United Kingdom, AustraliaIntroductionThe ADA v. the Canadian Charter of Rights: Disability Rights and the Social Model of Disability Jerome E. BickenbachThe UK Disability Discrimination Act: Disabling Language,Justifying Inequitable Social ParticipationA Bright New Era of Equality, Independence and Freedom:Casting an Australian Gaze on the ADA Melinda Jones and Lee Ann Basser MarksAppendixContributorsIndex
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