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Redefining Disability: Maleficent, Unjust and Inconsistent

Becky Cox-White

California State University-Chico, Chico, California, USA

Susanna Flavia Boxall

California State University-Chico, Chico, California, USA

Address correspondence to: Becky Cox-White, PhD, California State University-Chico, Department of Philosophy, 121 Trinity Hall, California State University, Chico, CA 95929 USA. E-mail: bcwhite{at}csuchico.edu


  Abstract

Disability activists' redefinition of "disability" as a social, rather than a medical, problem attempts to reassign causality. We explicate the untenable implications of this approach and argue this definition is maleficent, unjust, and inconsistent. Thus, redefining disability as a socially caused phenomenon is, from a moral point of view, ill-advised.

Keywords: disability, genetic screening, justice, preimplantation genetic diagnosis


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