Respecting Disability : Attitudes, Ideals, and Relationships

著者名：Cureton, Adam

Oxford University Press（2025/10/21発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9780197775011
• eISBN：9780197775035

Description

Proper treatment of people with disabilities should not incur any head scratching. Yet for many, it requires a multifaceted and thoroughly considered approach. Respecting people with disabilities can involve a plethora of considerations and approaches to social relations and care: how we interact with them in interpersonal contexts, what kinds of attitudes we have toward them, how we relate with them, and how people with disabilities regard and treat ourselves. Drawing on the author's own perspective and experiences as a disabled person, Adam Cureton emphasizes the importance of relationships, ideals, virtues, and attitudes in how we approach ethical issues that concern disability, and explores the nature and moral importance of respect for people with disabilities and of respect for ourselves. The book explores ways to understand and evaluate one's own disability and how to maintain one's self-respect in the face of disparaging social pressures. It also addresses unique moral challenges that disabled people face and characterizes some guiding moral ideals of self-respect for navigating these complex situations. Cureton emphasizes the importance of expressing respect for disabled people. By distinguishing several different kinds of respect for people with disabilities, he shows how many of the common attitudes that even well-meaning people have towards those with disabilities are complicated and morally problematic. Through these intricacies, he charts a nuanced path forward. This book speaks to disabled people and others with experience of disability to help people understand and evaluate the many ways we can properly respect disability.

Table of Contents

IntroductionPART I: SELF-RESPECT OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES1. Hiding a Disability and Passing as Non-Disabled2. Gaming the System?: Justice, Fairness, and Disability Accommodations3. Depending on the Undependable: Disability, Fragility, and Instability4. Prudence and Responsibility to Self in an Identity CrisisPART II: RESPECT FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES5. Ideals of Respect: Identity, Dignity, and Disability6. Some Virtues of Disability7. The Limiting Role of Respect8. Offensive BeneficencePART III: RESPECTING DISABILITY IN PRACTICE9. Expressing Respect for People with Disabilities in Medical Practice10. Parents with Disabilities11. Character Education for Students with Disabilities12. Treating Disabled Adults as ChildrenReferencesIndex