Arguing about disability : philosophical perspectives / edited by Kristjana Kristiansen, Simo Vehmas and Tom Shakespeare.

London : Routledge, 2009.

viii, 224 pages ; 24 cm

Social justice and disability : competing interpretations of the medical and social models / Steven R. Smith -- Definitions of disability : ethical and other values / Steven D. Edwards -- The ontology of disability and impairment : a discussion of the natural and social features / Simo Vehmas and Pekka Makela -- Disability and the thinking body / Jackie Leach Scully -- Personhood and the social inclusion of people with disabilities : a recognition-theoretical approach / Heikki Ikaheimo -- Disability and freedom / Richard Hull -- Disability, non-talent and distributive justice / Jerome E. Bickenbach -- Gender, disability and personal identity : moral and political problems in community thinking / Tuija Takala -- Cochlear implants, linguistic rights and open future arguments / Patrick Kermit -- The moral contestedness of selecting deaf embryos / Matti Hayry -- The role of medical experts in shaping disability law / Lindsey Brown -- Prenatal screening for Down syndrome : why we shouldn't / Berge Solberg -- Biopolitics and bare life : does the impaired body provide contemporary examples of homo sacer / Donna Reeve.

Includes bibliographical references and index.