In her engaging, powerfully argued, and good-humored book, Barnes seeks to illuminate the nature of physical disability, challenge the view that it has a negative impact on well-being, and defend a mere-difference view of disability . . . it is a wildly creative, rigorous, and ground-breaking work that represents a significant contribution to the on-going inquiry into the nature and value of disability. It would not be an exaggeration to claim that it is the most important single-authored book in philosophy of disability to come out of the analytic tradition in a generation.

Autorentext
Elizabeth Barnes is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia. She works on metaphysics, ethics, and social and feminist philosophyand is especially interested in the places where these areas overlap.

Klappentext

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. To be physically disabled is not to have a defective body, but simply to have a minority body.

Inhalt

• Preface

• Introduction

• 1: Constructing Disability

• 2: Bad-difference/Mere-difference

• 3: The Value-Neutral Model

• 4: Taking Their Word for It

• 5: Causing Disability

• 6: Disability Pride