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Disability bioethics and the commitment to equality
Robert Veatch’s The Foundations of Justice: Why the Retarded and the Rest of Us Have Claims to Equality (1986) delves into deep questions of justice...
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Promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in research and funding: reflections from a digital manufacturing research network
BackgroundEqual, diverse, and inclusive teams lead to higher productivity, creativity, and greater problem-solving ability resulting in more...
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Does Political Equality Require Equal Power? A Pluralist Account
In this paper, I criticize two views on how political equality is related to equally distributed political power, and I offer a novel, pluralist...
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Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying Law and the Rights to Life and Equality at International Law
In international law, the right to life has been described as the most fundamental human right, without which other core human rights cannot be...
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Well-Being and Finiteness: Agency, Self-Acceptance, and Disability
Building on The Ontology of Well-Being Thesis (TOWT) explored and defended in previous chapters, an explanation is provided in this chapter of how...
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COVID-19, the Immune System, and Organic Disability
Despite the availability of safe vaccines against SARS-CoV-2, some people will remain vulnerable because they will not be vaccinated. Who are these...
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Aging, Equality and the Human Healthspan
John Davis ( New Methuselahs : The Ethics of Life Extension , The MIT Press, Cambridge, 2018) advances a novel ethical analysis of longevity science...
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The Impact of Prenatal Screening on Disability Communities and the Meaning of Disability
The advent of prenatal screening technologies has neatly paralleled the evolution of disability rightsDisability rights. During the 1970s and 1980s,...
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Without Exemptions: Reconciling Equality with the Accommodation of Diversity
When generally applicable rules clash with one’s cultural, religious or moral commitments, should exemptions be granted? The debate on exemptions...
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Allocation of scarce resources, disability, and parity
This article considers the possible relation between the idea of parity and some past work on the allocation of scarce resources. Parity of value is...
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From relational equality to personal responsibility
According to relational egalitarians, equality is not primarily about the distribution of some good but about people relating to one another as...
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Positional Goods and Social Equality: Examining the Convergence Thesis
Several philosophers argue for the ‘convergence thesis’ for positional goods: prioritarians, sufficientarians, and egalitarians may converge on...
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Bioethics and the Krankenmorde: Disability and Diversity
Between 1933 and 1945, almost 300,000 people were murdered and 360,000 sterilized by the National Socialist (Nazi) regime under a group of crimes now...
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Why Disability Mainstreaming is Good for Business: A New Narrative
In developed economies, powerful legislative and regulatory frameworks, for people with disability (PWD) over the last five decades, have provided...
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Equality as Industrial Capitalism’s Trojan Horse: Environmental Racism, Green Colonialism, and The Renewable Energies Revolution
“Equality: Industrial Capitalism’s Trojan Horse—Environmental Racism, Green Colonialism, and The Renewable Energies Revolution” explores the crucial...
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Theorizing Discursive Resistance to Organizational Ethics of Care Through a Multi-stakeholder Perspective on Disability Inclusion Practices
This paper examines the support for diversity from a moral perspective. Combining business ethics theory with a lens of critical discourse analysis,...
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Introduction: Equality, Inclusion and Alienation in Learning Philosophy
When we are talk about the underrepresentationUnderrepresentation of women in philosophy, what do we mean, and what kind of data do we have on it?...
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Equality, diversity, and inclusion in oncology clinical trials: an audit of essential documents and data collection against INCLUDE under-served groups in a UK academic trial setting
BackgroundClinical trials should be as inclusive as possible to facilitate equitable access to research and better reflect the population towards...
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African Theories of Human Dignity: Euthanasia, Animal Ethics and Disability
This chapter applies African theories of human dignity to select themes in applied ethics. Specifically, it applies the four theories of human...
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An ethical analysis of clinical triage protocols and decision-making frameworks: what do the principles of justice, freedom, and a disability rights approach demand of us?
BackgroundThe expectation of pandemic-induced severe resource shortages has prompted authorities to draft and update frameworks to guide clinical...