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Dworkin on Disablement and ResourcesCanadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 9 (2): 343-359. 1996.In “Why Should Liberals Care about Equality?,” Ronald Dworkin distinguishes between two forms of liberalism, one form based on neutrality, and the other one based on equality. As Dworkin explains it, proponents of both forms argue against legal incursion into private morality, and argue in favour of increased sexual, political, racial, and economic equality; however, they disagree about which of these traditionally liberal values is the fundamental one, and which is its derivative. Liberalism ba…Read more
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53Book review: Susan Wendell. The rejected body: Feminist philosophical reflections on disability. New York: Routledge, 1996 (review)Hypatia 12 (2): 219-223. 1997.
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161Foucault and the Government of Disability (edited book)University of Michigan Press. 2005.The provocative essays in this volume respond to Foucault's call to question what is regarded as natural, inevitable, ethical, and liberating, while they ...
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630Stemming the tide of normalisation: An expanded feminist analysis of the ethics and social impact of embryonic stem cell researchJournal of Bioethical Inquiry 3 (1-2): 33-42. 2006.Feminists have indicated the inadequacies of bioethical debates about human embryonic stem cell research, which have for the most part revolved around concerns about the moral status of the human embryo. Feminists have argued, for instance, that inquiry concerning the ethics and politics of human embryonic stem cell research should consider the relations of social power in which the research is embedded. My argument is that this feminist work on stem cells is itself inadequate, however, insofar …Read more
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