Disability, Subject‐Dependence, and the Bad‐Difference View.

Philosophers have debated on the "mere‐difference" view of disability, according to which disability as such is neutral in terms of well‐being, just like race and gender. It is contrasted with the "bad‐difference" view, which holds that disability is bad for its possessor even in a non‐ableist situa...

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Publicado en:Bioethics Vol. 39; no. 9; pp. 802 - 810
Autores principales: Ishida, Shu, Sasaki‐Honda, Mitsuru, Sawai, Tsutomu
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Nov2025
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          Uehiro Division for Applied Ethics, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
          Institute of Biomedicine and Biotechnology of Cantabria, CSIC/Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain
          Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
          Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
          Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore,, Singapore
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        Respect
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