Redefining disability: maleficent, unjust and inconsistent.
Disability activists' redefinition of "disability" as a social, rather than a medical, problem attempts to reassign causality. We explicate the untenable implications of this approach and argue this definition is maleficent, unjust, and inconsistent. Thus, redefining disability as a socially caused phenomenon is, from a moral point of view, ill-advised.
Cox-White
Becky
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Department of Philosophy, California State University-Chico, Chico, CA 95929, USA. bcwhite@csuchico.edu
Boxall
Susanna Flavia
SF
D004185:Disability Evaluation; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans; D010686:Philosophy, Medical; D011640:Public Policy; D012935:Social Justice; D012941:Social Responsibility