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Americans with disabilities : exploring implications of the law for individuals and institutions / edited by Leslie Pickering Francis & Anita Silvers.

Contributor(s): Francis, Leslie, 1946- | Silvers, Anita
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Routledge, 2000Description: xxx, 410 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0415923689 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0415923670Subject(s): People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States | United States. Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990DDC classification: 342.73/087 LOC classification: KF480.A32 | F73 2000Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Positively disabled: the relationship between the definition of disability and rights under ADA / Patricia Illingworth and Wendy E. Parmet -- Disability, discrimination and priority / Richard J. Arneson -- Justice for people with disabilities: the semiconsequentialist approach / Thomas Pagge -- The good of agency / Lawrence C. Becker -- At home with my daughter / Eva Feder Kittay -- The need for a standard of care / Alasdair McIntyre -- Does disability status matter / Mark Kelman -- Biological normality and the ADA / Ron Amundson -- Impairment and embodiment / Mary Crossley -- The Supreme Court's nearsighted view of the ADA / Arlene Mayerson and Matthew Diller -- The unprotected: constructing disability in the context of antidiscrimination law / Anita Silvers -- Stigma without impairment / David Wasserman -- Disability and the definition of work / Iris Marion Young -- Disability and the right to work / Gregory S. Kavka -- Market failure and ADA Title I / Michael Ashley Stein -- Studying disability, employment policy and the ADA / Peter David Blanck -- Health care resource prioritization and discrimination against persons with disabilities / Dan W. Brock
Utility, equality and health care needs of persons with disabilities: interpreting the ADA's requirement of reasonable accommodations / David Orentlicher -- Disability and illness / Joel Feinberg -- Mental disabilities, equal opportunity and the ADA / Norman Daniels -- Disputing the doctrine of benign neglect: a challenge to the disparate treatment of Americans with disabilities / Harlan Hahn -- Making change: the ADA as an instrument of social reform / Richard K. Scotch -- Ten years later: the ADA and the future of disability policy / Andrew I. Batavia -- ADA Title III: a fragile compromise / Ruth Colker -- Courts and wrongful birth: can disability itself be viewed as a legal wrong? / Lori B. Andrews and Michelle Hibbert -- Go to the margins of the class: hate crimes and disability / Lennard J. Davis -- The ADA v. the Canadian Charter of Rights: disability rights and the social model of disability / Jerome Bickenbach -- The U.K. Disability Discrimination Act: disabling language, justifying inequitable social participation / Mairian Corker -- A bright new era of equality, independence and freedom: casting an Australian gaze on the ADA / Melinda Jones and Lee Ann Basser Marks.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Positively disabled: the relationship between the definition of disability and rights under ADA / Patricia Illingworth and Wendy E. Parmet -- Disability, discrimination and priority / Richard J. Arneson -- Justice for people with disabilities: the semiconsequentialist approach / Thomas Pagge -- The good of agency / Lawrence C. Becker -- At home with my daughter / Eva Feder Kittay -- The need for a standard of care / Alasdair McIntyre -- Does disability status matter / Mark Kelman -- Biological normality and the ADA / Ron Amundson -- Impairment and embodiment / Mary Crossley -- The Supreme Court's nearsighted view of the ADA / Arlene Mayerson and Matthew Diller -- The unprotected: constructing disability in the context of antidiscrimination law / Anita Silvers -- Stigma without impairment / David Wasserman -- Disability and the definition of work / Iris Marion Young -- Disability and the right to work / Gregory S. Kavka -- Market failure and ADA Title I / Michael Ashley Stein -- Studying disability, employment policy and the ADA / Peter David Blanck -- Health care resource prioritization and discrimination against persons with disabilities / Dan W. Brock

Utility, equality and health care needs of persons with disabilities: interpreting the ADA's requirement of reasonable accommodations / David Orentlicher -- Disability and illness / Joel Feinberg -- Mental disabilities, equal opportunity and the ADA / Norman Daniels -- Disputing the doctrine of benign neglect: a challenge to the disparate treatment of Americans with disabilities / Harlan Hahn -- Making change: the ADA as an instrument of social reform / Richard K. Scotch -- Ten years later: the ADA and the future of disability policy / Andrew I. Batavia -- ADA Title III: a fragile compromise / Ruth Colker -- Courts and wrongful birth: can disability itself be viewed as a legal wrong? / Lori B. Andrews and Michelle Hibbert -- Go to the margins of the class: hate crimes and disability / Lennard J. Davis -- The ADA v. the Canadian Charter of Rights: disability rights and the social model of disability / Jerome Bickenbach -- The U.K. Disability Discrimination Act: disabling language, justifying inequitable social participation / Mairian Corker -- A bright new era of equality, independence and freedom: casting an Australian gaze on the ADA / Melinda Jones and Lee Ann Basser Marks.

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