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Americans with Disabilities

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Americans with Disabilities

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Americans with Disabilities book

Americans with Disabilities

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Americans with Disabilities book

Edited ByLeslie Francis, Anita Silvers
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2000
eBook Published 4 January 2016
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315865737
Pages 432
eBook ISBN 9781315865737
Subjects Social Sciences
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Francis, L., & Silvers, A. (Eds.). (2000). Americans with Disabilities (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315865737

ABSTRACT

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

part |2 pages

Introduction

chapter |15 pages

Positively Disabled: The Relationship between the Definition of Disability and Rights under the ADA

chapter |16 pages

Disability, Discrimination and Priority

chapter |20 pages

Justice for People with Disabilities: The Semiconsequentialist Approach

chapter |10 pages

The Good of Agency

chapter |17 pages

At Home with My Daughter

chapter |6 pages

The Need for a Standard of Care

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

chapter |11 pages

Does Disability Status Matter?

chapter |9 pages

Biological Normality and the ADA

chapter |13 pages

Impairment and Embodiment

part |2 pages

The Supreme Court's Nearsighted View of the ADA

chapter |20 pages

The Unprotected: Constructing Disability in the Context of Antidiscrimination Law

chapter |17 pages

Stigma without Impairment: Demedicalizing Disability Discrimination

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

chapter |54 pages

PART C-l Work

chapter |46 pages

PART C-2 Health

chapter |72 pages

PART C-3 Congress and the Courts

chapter |3 pages

Introduction

chapter |15 pages

The ADA v. the Canadian Charter of Rights: Disability Rights and the Social Model of Disability

chapter |14 pages

The U.K. Disability Discrimination Act: disabling language, justifying inequitable social participation

chapter |16 pages

A Bright New Era of Equality, Independence and Freedom: Casting an Australian Gaze on the ADA

part |2 pages

Appendix: Texts of Laws and Court Decisions

chapter |6 pages

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