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Impairment and Disability: Constructing an Ethics of Care That Promotes Human Rights
Article first published online: 9 JAN 2009
DOI: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2001.tb00750.x
2001 by Hypatia, Inc.
Issue
Hypatia
Special Issue: Feminism and Disability, Part 1
Volume 16, Issue 4, pages 1–16, November 2001
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How to Cite
MORRIS, J. (2001), Impairment and Disability: Constructing an Ethics of Care That Promotes Human Rights. Hypatia, 16: 1–16. doi: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2001.tb00750.x
Publication History
- Issue published online: 9 JAN 2009
- Article first published online: 9 JAN 2009
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The social model of disability gives us the tools not only to challenge the discrimination and prejudice we face, but also to articulate the personal experience of impairment. Recognition of difference is therefore a key part of the assertion of our common humanity and of an ethics of care that promotes our human rights.