Respecting Disability: Attitudes, Ideals, and Relationships (Oxford Studies in Disability Ethics and Society)

Proper treatment of people with disabilities should not incur any head scratching.Yet for many, it requires a multifaceted and thoroughly considered approach.Respecting people with disabilities can involve a plethora of considerations and approaches to social relations and care: how we interact with them in interpersonal contexts, what kinds of attitudes we have toward them, how we relate with them, and how people with disabilities regard and treat ourselves.Drawing on the author's own perspective and experiences as a disabled person, Adam Cureton emphasizes the importance of relationships, ideals, virtues, and attitudes in how we approach ethical issues that concern disability, and explores the nature and moral importance of respect for people with disabilities and of respect for ourselves.The book explores ways to understand and evaluate one's own disability and how to maintain one's self-respect in the face of disparaging social pressures.It also addresses unique moral challenges th