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Tables of Contents for Future of the Disabled in Liberal Society
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Introduction
1
20
A Paradigmatic Shift
1
3
Widening the Scope of the Debate I
4
5
Widening the Scope of the Debate II
9
3
The Argument
12
9
PART ONE
The `Liberal Convention'
21
16
The Context of the Debate
21
1
The `Liberal Convention'
22
2
Implications of Starting with the `Liberal Convention'
24
2
Morality among Strangers
26
4
Instrumentalism, Formalism, or Conventionalism?
30
5
Beyond a Narrow Conception of Morality
35
2
Genetics and Prevention in Public Morality
37
14
Initial Distinctions
37
2
`Morally Permissible' and `Morally Required'
39
1
Preventing Conception and Preventing Birth
40
2
`Impairment', `Disability', and `Handicap'
42
2
`Disease' and `Disability'
44
2
`We' as Individuals and `We' as a Political Community
46
3
Two Questions
49
2
``The Condition, Not the Person''
51
15
The Charge of Negative Evaluation
51
2
The DPC Argument
53
3
Actual and Future People
56
1
Evaluating Other People's Lives
57
2
Disability and Identity
59
2
The Fallacy of Geneticization
61
2
What Are Clinical Geneticists Doing?
63
3
Disability, Prevention, and Discrimination
66
18
Negative Side Effects?
67
1
Two Types of Reasons
68
2
Discrimination and Exclusion
70
3
Discrimination and the Value of Life
73
2
The Social Position of the Disabled
75
3
The Future of Disability
78
3
No World without Disabled People
81
3
Restriction on Reproductive Choice?
84
21
`Free Choice' in Human Reproduction
84
2
Restriction of Reproductive Freedom?
86
5
The Charge of Discriminatory Attitudes
91
3
Restrictive Policies against Selective Abortion
94
2
Restrictive Policies to Control Genetic Testing
96
3
Degrees of Seriousness?
99
2
The Weakness of the Liberal Convention
101
4
PART TWO
The Inclusion of the Mentally Disabled
105
17
The Moral Standing of Disabled People
105
3
Persons in the Social Sense
108
1
Justice and Beneficence
109
4
Recipients of Justice
113
3
Public Morality as Overlapping Consensus
116
2
The Parasitic Nature of Liberal Morality
118
4
Imperatives of the Self
122
17
Two Claims
122
3
Kenzaburo Oe: A Personal Matter
125
2
An Inward Voyage
127
3
Himiko's Theory
130
2
Constancy and Truthfulness
132
3
Accountability as Self-Narration
135
4
Responsibility for Dependent Others
139
20
On Accepting Responsibility
139
3
`The Ethical Demand'
142
1
Social Norms and Moral Judgment
143
3
`Life as a Gift'
146
2
Convention and Commitment
148
5
Appropriate Motivations
153
6
PART THREE
The Presumption of Suffering
159
16
A Remaining Question
159
3
Reasons Regarding Quality of Life
162
2
Ways of Suffering
164
2
Enrichment? In What Way?
166
5
Identification, Not Resignation
171
4
The Transformation Experience
175
18
Incoherent Views?
176
1
The Different Perspectives
177
3
A Capacity for Alienation
180
3
``From Devastation to Transformation''
183
4
Transformation and the Power to Respond
187
6
The Meaning of Life in Liberal Society
193
16
Discovered or Made?
193
1
Some Conceptual Clarifications
194
3
Bricoleurs Rather Than Engineers
197
1
Culture as a `Context of Choice'
198
2
The Redundancy of Choice
200
3
Caring for the Disabled in Liberal Society
203
3
Conclusion
206
3
Notes
209
50
Bibliography
259
12
Index
271