ABSTRACT
This chapter provides overview of disability as the foundation for understanding the relationship between disability and conceptualizations of the violating body, and the importance of that association for context relative ethical decision-making and embodied rights. Interactive models such as disjuncture theory and that advanced in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities remarry social and medical models to recognize the violating body in context as the locus of disability. Ethics are codes of the “many” while morals are judgment of the one. J. E. Bickenbach and J. E. Bickenbach suggest that the conflict can be resolved by seeing “progressive realisation of rights along with situational sensitivity of difference” as friends that can and must coexist to foster human rights. Descriptive moral relativism does just what it says; it describes differences among ethical/moral positions that are developed using the same knowledge base.
