Anita Silvers
Biographic Data
| ID | 266444 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anita Silvers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anita |
| FAMILY NAME | Silvers |
| SIGNATURE | SILVERS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Francisco State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Metaphysics for Minorities: An Appreciation of Elizabeth Barnes's The Minority Body
Achieving Meaningful Access to Medicaid
Federal and state budgetary constraints continually challenge Medicaid. The effects of benefit cuts are common: long waiting lists for community‐based services, skeletonized drug formularies with unstable access to long‐term prescriptions, no psychiatric therapy for people immobilized by depression, and no more than fourteen days of acute hospitalization. Reimbursements may be so low that providers cannot hire qualified staff and must reduce serv…
Reproductive Rights and Access to Reproductive Services for Women with Disabilities
Are women with disabilities owed equitable access to reproductive health services, including family planning, contraception, screening for sexually transmitted infections, maternal health services, and fertility services? Or are there circumstances in which disability is a reason to deny access to such services? Conversely, should women with certain disabilities have access to procedures such as caesarean section or sterilization? May these proce…
Perspectives on the Meaning of “Disability”
The meaning of "disability" has shifted with changes in public policy. Half a century ago, Congress was convinced that narrow determinations of disability are easy for physicians to make. But with the advent of universal civil rights protection against disability discrimination in the US, deciding whether particular individuals are disabled became increasingly contentious, until Congress intervened. What should now be addressed in each case is no…
Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate
Becoming Mrs. Mayberry: Dependency and the Right to be Free
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Medicine and Social Justice: Essays on the Distribution of Health Care
"Because medicine can preserve life, restore health and maintain the body's functions, it is widely acknowledged as a basic good that just societies should provide for their members. Yet, there is wide disagreement over the scope and content of what to provide, to whom, how, when, and why. In this unique and comprehensive volume, some of the best-known philosophers, physicians, legal scholars, political scientists, and economists writing on the s…
Moral status: What a bad idea!
The price of perfection: Individualism and society in the era of biomedical enhancement , by Maxwell J. Mehlman
Maxwell J. Mehlman, The price of perfection: Individualism and society in the era of biomedical enhancement, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009, reviewed by Anita Silvers
No Talent? Beyond the Worst Off! A Diverse Theory of Justice for Disability
This chapter deals with people traditionally not included in accounts of social justice. It stresses the need for a deeper regard for people not thought to fit the models of the person assumed in dominant moral and political theories. Rather than thinking of problems associated with them as issues to be worked out later, this chapter argues that society should perceive issues of justice in a way that will appreciate and embrace the many ways that…
Thinking About the Good: Reconfiguring Liberal Metaphysics (Or Not) for People With Cognitive Disabilities
Liberalism welcomes diversity in substantive ideas of the good but not in the process whereby these ideas are formed. Ideas of the good acquire weight on the presumption that each is a person's own, formed independently. But people differ in their capacities to conceptualize. Some, appropriately characterized as cerebral, are proficient in and profoundly involved with conceptualizing. Others, labeled cognitively disabled, range from individuals w…
Disability and the Social Contract
In Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership (“Frontiers of Justice”), philosopher Martha Nussbaum demonstrates the power of her capabilities approach for political theory by proposing to bring three often-disregarded groups safely within the scope of justice. Like animals and economically underdeveloped nations, she contends, people with disabilities are excluded from traditional social contract theory. In its simplest (p…
Liberalism and Individually Scripted Ideas of the Good: Meeting the Challenge of Dependent Agency
Our Posthuman Future: Discussing the Consequences of Biotechnological Advances
Susan Squier, Catherine Waldby, Anita Silvers, Lisa Sowle Cahill, Paul Lauritzen, Our Posthuman Future: Discussing the Consequences of Biotechnological Advances, The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 35, No. 6 (Nov. - Dec., 2005), pp. 4-7
Rights Are Still Right: The Case for Disability Rights
A growing philosophical backlash suggests that rights may not be right. For those of us within whose earlier lifetimes patients had no rights, and women only, sharply curtailed ones, this prospect is worrisome. Of even more concern to me, as a person with a disability, is the related thought that we should abandon extending rights to the disabled before people like me can be fully caught up. For without having recourse to rights, how are we to re…
Convention and competence: Disability rights in sports and education
Physician-Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate
Physician Assisted Suicide is a cross-disciplinary collection of essays from philosophers, physicians, theologians, social scientists, lawyers and economists. As the first book to consider the implications of the Supreme Court decisions in Washington v. Glucksburg and Vacco v. Quill concerning physician-assisted suicide from a variety of perspectives, this collection advances informed, reflective, vigorous public debate
An Open Future
isoelectric EEG and yet live for many years. Dr. White seems to be implying that we should simply ignore the frequent finding of intact neurohormonal function in patients diagnosed as brain dead. If regulation of the body's fluid and electrolyte balance within a narrow tolerance does not represent intricate brain functioning, then what should we think of such relatively simple reflexes as pupillary constriction in response to light? No one can su…
Reconciling Equality to Difference: Caring (F)or Justice For People With Disabilities
A feminist ethics that bases morality on dependence or vulnerability challenges the moral priority of uniform over disparate treatment. Persons with disabilities resist equality's homogenization of moral personhood. But displacing equality in favor of caring or trust reprises the repression of those already marginalized. The ethics of difference proves an ineffective remedy for the negative consequences attendant on how historically marginalized …
“Defective” Agents: Equality, Difference and the Tyranny of the Normal: (In)equality,(Ab)normality and (Dis)ability
Sociobiology and Human Nature
A Common Sky: Philosophy and the Literary Imagination
Reconciling Equality to Difference: Caring (F)or Justice For People With Disabilities
A feminist ethics that bases morality on dependence or vulnerability challenges the moral priority of uniform over disparate treatment. Persons with disabilities resist equality's homogenization of moral personhood. But displacing equality in favor of caring or trust reprises the repression of those already marginalized. The ethics of difference proves an ineffective remedy for the negative consequences attendant on how historically marginalized …
Becoming Mrs. Mayberry: Dependency and the Right to be Free
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Convention and competence: Disability rights in sports and education
A Common Sky: Philosophy and the Literary Imagination
Sociobiology and Human Nature
“Defective” Agents: Equality, Difference and the Tyranny of the Normal: (In)equality,(Ab)normality and (Dis)ability
Reconciling Equality to Difference: Caring (F)or Justice For People With Disabilities
A feminist ethics that bases morality on dependence or vulnerability challenges the moral priority of uniform over disparate treatment. Persons with disabilities resist equality's homogenization of moral personhood. But displacing equality in favor of caring or trust reprises the repression of those already marginalized. The ethics of difference proves an ineffective remedy for the negative consequences attendant on how historically marginalized …
An Open Future
isoelectric EEG and yet live for many years. Dr. White seems to be implying that we should simply ignore the frequent finding of intact neurohormonal function in patients diagnosed as brain dead. If regulation of the body's fluid and electrolyte balance within a narrow tolerance does not represent intricate brain functioning, then what should we think of such relatively simple reflexes as pupillary constriction in response to light? No one can su…
Physician-Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate
Physician Assisted Suicide is a cross-disciplinary collection of essays from philosophers, physicians, theologians, social scientists, lawyers and economists. As the first book to consider the implications of the Supreme Court decisions in Washington v. Glucksburg and Vacco v. Quill concerning physician-assisted suicide from a variety of perspectives, this collection advances informed, reflective, vigorous public debate
Convention and competence: Disability rights in sports and education
Rights Are Still Right: The Case for Disability Rights
A growing philosophical backlash suggests that rights may not be right. For those of us within whose earlier lifetimes patients had no rights, and women only, sharply curtailed ones, this prospect is worrisome. Of even more concern to me, as a person with a disability, is the related thought that we should abandon extending rights to the disabled before people like me can be fully caught up. For without having recourse to rights, how are we to re…
Our Posthuman Future: Discussing the Consequences of Biotechnological Advances
Susan Squier, Catherine Waldby, Anita Silvers, Lisa Sowle Cahill, Paul Lauritzen, Our Posthuman Future: Discussing the Consequences of Biotechnological Advances, The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 35, No. 6 (Nov. - Dec., 2005), pp. 4-7
Disability and the Social Contract
In Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership (“Frontiers of Justice”), philosopher Martha Nussbaum demonstrates the power of her capabilities approach for political theory by proposing to bring three often-disregarded groups safely within the scope of justice. Like animals and economically underdeveloped nations, she contends, people with disabilities are excluded from traditional social contract theory. In its simplest (p…
Liberalism and Individually Scripted Ideas of the Good: Meeting the Challenge of Dependent Agency
No Talent? Beyond the Worst Off! A Diverse Theory of Justice for Disability
This chapter deals with people traditionally not included in accounts of social justice. It stresses the need for a deeper regard for people not thought to fit the models of the person assumed in dominant moral and political theories. Rather than thinking of problems associated with them as issues to be worked out later, this chapter argues that society should perceive issues of justice in a way that will appreciate and embrace the many ways that…
Thinking About the Good: Reconfiguring Liberal Metaphysics (Or Not) for People With Cognitive Disabilities
Liberalism welcomes diversity in substantive ideas of the good but not in the process whereby these ideas are formed. Ideas of the good acquire weight on the presumption that each is a person's own, formed independently. But people differ in their capacities to conceptualize. Some, appropriately characterized as cerebral, are proficient in and profoundly involved with conceptualizing. Others, labeled cognitively disabled, range from individuals w…
The price of perfection: Individualism and society in the era of biomedical enhancement , by Maxwell J. Mehlman
Maxwell J. Mehlman, The price of perfection: Individualism and society in the era of biomedical enhancement, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009, reviewed by Anita Silvers
Medicine and Social Justice: Essays on the Distribution of Health Care
"Because medicine can preserve life, restore health and maintain the body's functions, it is widely acknowledged as a basic good that just societies should provide for their members. Yet, there is wide disagreement over the scope and content of what to provide, to whom, how, when, and why. In this unique and comprehensive volume, some of the best-known philosophers, physicians, legal scholars, political scientists, and economists writing on the s…
Moral status: What a bad idea!
Becoming Mrs. Mayberry: Dependency and the Right to be Free
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate
Reproductive Rights and Access to Reproductive Services for Women with Disabilities
Are women with disabilities owed equitable access to reproductive health services, including family planning, contraception, screening for sexually transmitted infections, maternal health services, and fertility services? Or are there circumstances in which disability is a reason to deny access to such services? Conversely, should women with certain disabilities have access to procedures such as caesarean section or sterilization? May these proce…
Perspectives on the Meaning of “Disability”
The meaning of "disability" has shifted with changes in public policy. Half a century ago, Congress was convinced that narrow determinations of disability are easy for physicians to make. But with the advent of universal civil rights protection against disability discrimination in the US, deciding whether particular individuals are disabled became increasingly contentious, until Congress intervened. What should now be addressed in each case is no…
Achieving Meaningful Access to Medicaid
Federal and state budgetary constraints continually challenge Medicaid. The effects of benefit cuts are common: long waiting lists for community‐based services, skeletonized drug formularies with unstable access to long‐term prescriptions, no psychiatric therapy for people immobilized by depression, and no more than fourteen days of acute hospitalization. Reimbursements may be so low that providers cannot hire qualified staff and must reduce serv…
Metaphysics for Minorities: An Appreciation of Elizabeth Barnes's The Minority Body
Law (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (8 works) · Ethics in medical practice (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works)