Philosophy meets disability.
The question "what is disability" and its implications are addressed in a new book Arguing about disability: philosophical perspectives, which aims to fill the gap between disability studies and philosophy. The structure of the book has been organised roughly on the basis of three branches of philosophy: metaphysics, political philosophy and ethics. One of the main themes of the book is the characterisation of a third way of thinking about disability, a way between two extremes, the medical and social models of disability.
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Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. pekka.louhiala@helsinki.fi
D001294:Attitude to Health; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000145:classification* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010684:Philosophy; D011287:Prejudice; D012931:Social Environment