Disability ethics and preferential justice a Catholic perspective / Mary Jo Iozzio.

Author/creator Iozzio, Mary Jo.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoWashington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2023]
Descriptionxiii, 124 pages ; 24 cm
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Subjects

Contents Disability Basics -- Contributions from the United Nations and the World Health Organization -- Natural Law and the Common Good -- Imago Dei, Theological Anthropology, and Catholic Social Teaching -- A Preferential Justice for Those Who are Poor or Otherwise Marginalized -- Conclusions: Inclusion in Place of Neglect.
Abstract "Disability is a global reality which we do not acknowledge. As a result, too few people without immediate experience of persons with disability remain unconcerned with this largest and most diverse minority of people across the globe (at least 15 percent of the world's population). Moreover, the likelihood of able-bodied/able-minded persons joining this minority increases over the lifespan, with for example, Alzheimer's, arthritis, depression, diabetes, heart disease, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's, and other conditions being very common around the world. No geographic location is immune from this prevalence, though poverty increases and exacerbates vulnerability to being born with or acquiring a disability in one's lifetime. Disability Ethics and Preferential Justice is one response to a dearth of theo-ethical reflection on disability, arguing that justice requires a preferential safeguard for persons and communities of people with disability. The book makes this argument by presenting a Trinitarian theological anthropology on the imago Dei and applying the liberation lens of Catholic Social Teaching with a preferential justice for those who are poor and otherwise marginalized, oppressed, or silenced on account of their disability"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 91-115) and index.
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LCCN 2022008186
ISBN9781647123086 (hardcover)
ISBN9781647123093 (paperback)
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