Lexington Books
Pages: 126
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Trim: 6½ x 9⅜
978-0-7391-7802-7 • Hardback • March 2014 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
978-1-4985-3658-5 • Paperback • March 2016 • $49.99 • (£38.00)
978-0-7391-7803-4 • eBook • March 2014 • $47.50 • (£37.00)
Christopher A. Riddle is assistant professor and chair in the Department of Philosophy at Utica College, where he is also director of the Applied Ethics Institute.
1 Disability and Justice
2 Defining Disability
3 The Capabilities Approach
4 The Indexing Problem
5 Stigma-Sensitivity
6 The Special Moral Importance of Health
7 Capabilities and Disability
Disability and Justice: The Capabilities Approach in Practice is alucid, concise and compelling philosophical discussion of disability, and its significance in political theory. Christopher Riddle has produced useful and plausible arguments with an aim to promote justice for people with disabilities.
— Simo P. Vehmas, Stockholm University
Disability and Justice: The Capabilities Approach in Practice provides a compelling case that the capabilities approach is at once the best we have and not yet satisfactory as a theory that addresses the experiences of people with disabilities within its core conception of justice. Drawing on a nuanced understanding of the cutting edge of capability theory and models of disability, Christopher Riddle not only enriches the dialogue between these areas, but also makes distinctive theoretical advances in each. The book will be of particular interest to readers working on the measurement of capabilities, the risk of stigmatization in the implementation of egalitarian policies, and issues of justice and disability more generally.
— Christopher R. Lowry, University of Waterloo