James B Gould
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1211045 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | James B Gould |
| NOMBRES | James B |
| APELLIDO | Gould |
| FIRMA | GOULD J B |
| AFILIACIONES | McHenry County College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7614-3169 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Turning Theory into Practice
This article analyzes health justice for adults with intellectual disabilities in developed nations. It integrates insights of political philosophy, international covenants, and empirical data from the health sciences. First, it specifies what health justice for disabled adults requires: adequate and equitable habilitation into health. Second, it describes, and third, explains, how the inadequate and inequitable health of disabled adults falls sh…
Left Behind
This paper uses themes from Catholic social teaching to challenge Church and society to prioritize a group that is left behind by social injustice: people with intellectual disabilities. It provides background information on intellectual disability, summarizes moral principles of Catholic social doctrine, describes sociological facts about how people with intellectual disabilities are left behind by social factors, and prescribes actionable solut…
Beyond the Shadows
This paper presents a public theology affirming the normalization of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Religious convictions about human equality and social justice contribute constructively to matters of public concern. While official principles of disability services do, operating practices often do not, accord with a theological vision of God’s desire for human flourishing. The analysis summarizes what is going on (many …
From Policy to Practice
The 2014 U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services “Settings Rule,” which took effect in 2023, restricts Home and Community Based Services funding for adults with intellectual disabilities to small integrated settings and person-centered supports. The Settings Rule responds to the fact that community services, mandated by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Supreme Court Olmstead ruling, while integrated physically, often oper…
A philosophical critique of United States housing policy for adults with intellectual disabilities
In the United States, as in other developed nations, housing for adults with intellectual disabilities has shifted from institutions to the community. Community services, however, often function in institutional ways. This is true in the United States and internationally. In the United States, the 'Settings Rule' aims to correct the institutional nature of community living by restricting funding to integrated locations with personalized supports.…
It Never Ends
Political advocacy is an important religious practice. But social activism can be discouraging. This paper integrates moral theology, virtue ethics, positive psychology and spiritual formation to highlight the importance of resilient hope for social justice advocates. Part 1 describes an important justice issue-public services for disabled people. Part 2 defines transformational advocacy and outlines an advocacy theology. Part 3 analyzes despair …
Beggars can’t be choosers
This article examines the gap between the theory and practice of person-centered services for adults with intellectual disabilities in the United States. It explores the rhetoric of personalized services—it gives a history of social care, rehearses the logic of person-centered planning and outlines the tension of conflicting disability policies. Then it defines the nature of choice and explains how limited alternatives undermine choice. Next the …
Heavenly Healing of Disability and the Problem of Preserving Identity through Radical Change
The traditional elimination view affirms that people with intellectual disabilities will be healed in heaven when God restores all things to what they were meant to be. Several contemporary scholars, however, have put forth a revisionist retention view claiming that people with intellectual disabilities will not be healed in heaven. While the elimination view has strong biblical and theological credentials, it faces a significant philosophical di…
Vague generalities and the complicity of ambiguity
Practical theology is critical reflection on the practices of the Church in light of the gospel. Homiletics—the exercise of public preaching—is one mode of Church practice that bears scrutiny. This soap-box article offers constructive critique of homilies that simply repeat an abstract, non-offensive, apolitical, ‘be nice to everyone’ message. Ignoring concrete unjust social realities and the people harmed by them—which is by nature political—bet…
Living in Nowheresville
Political theory contains two views of social care for people with intellectual disabilities. The favor view treats disability services as an undeserved gratuity, while the entitlement view sees them as a deserved right. This paper argues that David Hume is one philosophical source of the favor view; he bases political membership on a threshold level of mental capacity and shuts out anyone who falls below. Hume’s account, which excludes people wi…
Duty, not gratuity
Many adults with intellectual disabilities require assistance with activities of daily life and life skills training. This support is provided by professional caregivers. Because of low wages, a shortage of caregivers in the United States is now threatening services for adults with intellectual disabilities. The gratuity view treats social support for adults with intellectual disabilities as an undeserved favor. Society owes them nothing as a mat…
Disability caregivers and Church doulia , what Dietrich Bonhoeffer might say part 2
This is part 2 of a two-part article. People with intellectual and developmental disabilities either live at home with family or in facilities staffed by professionals. Family caregivers are fatigued, stressed, and financially burdened from the time, energy, and expense involved in looking after a dependent loved one. Professional caregivers experience hardship from the fact that wages are low—and so turnover is high, recruitment is difficult, an…
Disability caregivers and church doulia
This is Part 1 of a two-part article. People with intellectual and developmental disabilities either live at home with family or in facilities staffed by professionals. Family caregivers are fatigued, stressed, and financially burdened from the time, energy, and expense involved in looking after a dependent loved one. Professional caregivers experience hardship from the fact that wages are low—and so turnover is high, recruitment difficult, and v…
The Hope of Heavenly Healing of Disability Part 2—Philosophical Issues
This is Part 2 of a two-part article. The elimination view affirms that the disabled will be healed in heaven. While its theological credentials are strong, the elimination view faces philosophical difficulties—epistemic problems (it is said to misjudge the badness of life with disability), moral problems (it is said to express discriminatory attitudes to people with disabilities), and metaphysical problems (it is said to disrupt the personal ide…
The Hope of Heavenly Healing of Disability Part 1
This is Part 1 of a two-part article. The elimination view affirms that the disabled will be healed in heaven. Amos Yong's retention view, by contrast, suggests that people with disabilities will remain disabled in heaven. In this article, I build a positive case, based on the biblical argument for healing, for the elimination of disabilities in heaven; I then critique Yong's exegetical arguments based on Christ's stigmata and eschatological imag…
A picture is worth a thousand words”
This article outlines a strategy for grief education that makes undergraduate college students active participants rather than passive spectators an the barning process. The first section outlines the pedagogical procedure as a spiral of repeated steps in gathering data and constructing visual models describing the grief process. The second section describes far representative models that students have developed
A philosophical critique of United States housing policy for adults with intellectual disabilities
In the United States, as in other developed nations, housing for adults with intellectual disabilities has shifted from institutions to the community. Community services, however, often function in institutional ways. This is true in the United States and internationally. In the United States, the 'Settings Rule' aims to correct the institutional nature of community living by restricting funding to integrated locations with personalized supports.…
Duty, not gratuity
Many adults with intellectual disabilities require assistance with activities of daily life and life skills training. This support is provided by professional caregivers. Because of low wages, a shortage of caregivers in the United States is now threatening services for adults with intellectual disabilities. The gratuity view treats social support for adults with intellectual disabilities as an undeserved favor. Society owes them nothing as a mat…
Beyond the Shadows
This paper presents a public theology affirming the normalization of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Religious convictions about human equality and social justice contribute constructively to matters of public concern. While official principles of disability services do, operating practices often do not, accord with a theological vision of God’s desire for human flourishing. The analysis summarizes what is going on (many …
Beggars can’t be choosers
This article examines the gap between the theory and practice of person-centered services for adults with intellectual disabilities in the United States. It explores the rhetoric of personalized services—it gives a history of social care, rehearses the logic of person-centered planning and outlines the tension of conflicting disability policies. Then it defines the nature of choice and explains how limited alternatives undermine choice. Next the …
A picture is worth a thousand words”
This article outlines a strategy for grief education that makes undergraduate college students active participants rather than passive spectators an the barning process. The first section outlines the pedagogical procedure as a spiral of repeated steps in gathering data and constructing visual models describing the grief process. The second section describes far representative models that students have developed
The Hope of Heavenly Healing of Disability Part 1
This is Part 1 of a two-part article. The elimination view affirms that the disabled will be healed in heaven. Amos Yong's retention view, by contrast, suggests that people with disabilities will remain disabled in heaven. In this article, I build a positive case, based on the biblical argument for healing, for the elimination of disabilities in heaven; I then critique Yong's exegetical arguments based on Christ's stigmata and eschatological imag…
The Hope of Heavenly Healing of Disability Part 2—Philosophical Issues
This is Part 2 of a two-part article. The elimination view affirms that the disabled will be healed in heaven. While its theological credentials are strong, the elimination view faces philosophical difficulties—epistemic problems (it is said to misjudge the badness of life with disability), moral problems (it is said to express discriminatory attitudes to people with disabilities), and metaphysical problems (it is said to disrupt the personal ide…
Disability caregivers and Church doulia , what Dietrich Bonhoeffer might say part 2
This is part 2 of a two-part article. People with intellectual and developmental disabilities either live at home with family or in facilities staffed by professionals. Family caregivers are fatigued, stressed, and financially burdened from the time, energy, and expense involved in looking after a dependent loved one. Professional caregivers experience hardship from the fact that wages are low—and so turnover is high, recruitment is difficult, an…
Disability caregivers and church doulia
This is Part 1 of a two-part article. People with intellectual and developmental disabilities either live at home with family or in facilities staffed by professionals. Family caregivers are fatigued, stressed, and financially burdened from the time, energy, and expense involved in looking after a dependent loved one. Professional caregivers experience hardship from the fact that wages are low—and so turnover is high, recruitment difficult, and v…
Duty, not gratuity
Many adults with intellectual disabilities require assistance with activities of daily life and life skills training. This support is provided by professional caregivers. Because of low wages, a shortage of caregivers in the United States is now threatening services for adults with intellectual disabilities. The gratuity view treats social support for adults with intellectual disabilities as an undeserved favor. Society owes them nothing as a mat…
Living in Nowheresville
Political theory contains two views of social care for people with intellectual disabilities. The favor view treats disability services as an undeserved gratuity, while the entitlement view sees them as a deserved right. This paper argues that David Hume is one philosophical source of the favor view; he bases political membership on a threshold level of mental capacity and shuts out anyone who falls below. Hume’s account, which excludes people wi…
Heavenly Healing of Disability and the Problem of Preserving Identity through Radical Change
The traditional elimination view affirms that people with intellectual disabilities will be healed in heaven when God restores all things to what they were meant to be. Several contemporary scholars, however, have put forth a revisionist retention view claiming that people with intellectual disabilities will not be healed in heaven. While the elimination view has strong biblical and theological credentials, it faces a significant philosophical di…
Vague generalities and the complicity of ambiguity
Practical theology is critical reflection on the practices of the Church in light of the gospel. Homiletics—the exercise of public preaching—is one mode of Church practice that bears scrutiny. This soap-box article offers constructive critique of homilies that simply repeat an abstract, non-offensive, apolitical, ‘be nice to everyone’ message. Ignoring concrete unjust social realities and the people harmed by them—which is by nature political—bet…
Beggars can’t be choosers
This article examines the gap between the theory and practice of person-centered services for adults with intellectual disabilities in the United States. It explores the rhetoric of personalized services—it gives a history of social care, rehearses the logic of person-centered planning and outlines the tension of conflicting disability policies. Then it defines the nature of choice and explains how limited alternatives undermine choice. Next the …
Left Behind
This paper uses themes from Catholic social teaching to challenge Church and society to prioritize a group that is left behind by social injustice: people with intellectual disabilities. It provides background information on intellectual disability, summarizes moral principles of Catholic social doctrine, describes sociological facts about how people with intellectual disabilities are left behind by social factors, and prescribes actionable solut…
Beyond the Shadows
This paper presents a public theology affirming the normalization of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Religious convictions about human equality and social justice contribute constructively to matters of public concern. While official principles of disability services do, operating practices often do not, accord with a theological vision of God’s desire for human flourishing. The analysis summarizes what is going on (many …
From Policy to Practice
The 2014 U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services “Settings Rule,” which took effect in 2023, restricts Home and Community Based Services funding for adults with intellectual disabilities to small integrated settings and person-centered supports. The Settings Rule responds to the fact that community services, mandated by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Supreme Court Olmstead ruling, while integrated physically, often oper…
A philosophical critique of United States housing policy for adults with intellectual disabilities
In the United States, as in other developed nations, housing for adults with intellectual disabilities has shifted from institutions to the community. Community services, however, often function in institutional ways. This is true in the United States and internationally. In the United States, the 'Settings Rule' aims to correct the institutional nature of community living by restricting funding to integrated locations with personalized supports.…
It Never Ends
Political advocacy is an important religious practice. But social activism can be discouraging. This paper integrates moral theology, virtue ethics, positive psychology and spiritual formation to highlight the importance of resilient hope for social justice advocates. Part 1 describes an important justice issue-public services for disabled people. Part 2 defines transformational advocacy and outlines an advocacy theology. Part 3 analyzes despair …
Turning Theory into Practice
This article analyzes health justice for adults with intellectual disabilities in developed nations. It integrates insights of political philosophy, international covenants, and empirical data from the health sciences. First, it specifies what health justice for disabled adults requires: adequate and equitable habilitation into health. Second, it describes, and third, explains, how the inadequate and inequitable health of disabled adults falls sh…
Sociology (14 obras) · Psychology (13 obras) · Intellectual disability (9 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · Psychiatry (7 obras) · Healthcare innovation and challenges (6 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Philosophy (6 obras) · Theology (5 obras) · Disability Rights and Representation (4 obras)