Disability and Equality Law

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- PART I: DEFINITION AND MODELS -- 1 Defining Impairment and Disability: Issues at Stake -- INTRODUCTION -- THE PROBLEM OF DEFINITIONS -- THE ISSUE OF CAUSALITY -- THE QUESTION OF CONCEPTUAL CONSISTENCY -- THE ROLE OF LANGUAGE -- THE NORMALISING TENDENCIES OF BOTH SCHEMAS -- THE PROBLEM OF EXPERIENCE -- THE POLITICISATION OF THE DEFINITIONAL PROCESS -- DEVELOPING A SOCIAL MODEL OF IMPAIRMENT? -- OTHER INTERNAL CRITICISMS OF THE SOCIAL MODEL OF DISABILITY -- THE SOCIAL MODEL OF DISABILITY IS ALIVE AND WELL -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- 2 Philosophical Issues in the Definition and Social Response to Disability -- OVERVIEW: HOW IS PHILOSOPHY RELEVANT TO DISABILITY POLICY? -- WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO CLASSIFY A PHYSICAL OR MENTAL CONDITION AS AN IMPAIRMENT? -- WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO CLAIM THAT AN IMPAIRMENT IS THE CAUSE OR A CAUSE OF THE PERSONAL AND SOCIAL LIMITATIONS WITH WHICH IT IS ASSOCIATED? -- WHAT, IF ANYTHING, IS BAD ABOUT IMPAIRMENTS? DO IMPAIRMENTS DETRACT FROM WELL-BEING? -- HOW ARE IMPAIRMENTS RELEVANT TO SOCIAL AND POLITICAL JUSTICE? -- Can Distributive Justice Encompass Claims for Environmental Adaptation? -- Can Justice for People with Impairments Be Achieved by Eliminating Discrimination against Them or, More Broadly, by Eliminating Oppression and Subordination? -- Is an Account of Equality as Equal Citizenship Adequate for Disability Policy? -- CONCLUSION: THE PROSPECTS FOR CONVERGENCE -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 3 What I Learned -- 4 Critiquing the Social Model -- Introduction -- The political dangers of the social model of disability -- The unchanging social model -- The impairment/disability distinction -- The importance of impairment -- Limitations of the barrier-free world -- Problems with the barrier-free utopia