Bridging Justice and Care
Dignity, Capabilities, and Disability
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 17814030 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lucas Tang (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 62-77 |
| Publication date | 2026-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1937-4577 • E-ISSN: 1937-4585 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/ijfab-2025-0012 |
| OpenAlex | W7160058991 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 36 |
This article centers on the dignity and flourishing of disabled persons as a primary impetus in disability ethics. Martha Nussbaum’s capability approach recognizes dignity and flourishing as an intrinsic property of all persons. This framework can reconcile the binary of justice in care, with justice being typically impersonal in pursuit of objectivity and care ethics considering interpersonal relationships and unique needs. Dignity from a capabilities approach practices justice through attention toward personalized needs based on the relationality foundational to how training capabilities lead to flourishing
Dignity · Economic Justice · Flourishing · Interpersonal communication · Disability Rights and Representation · Patient Dignity and Privacy · Political Philosophy and Ethics
The Ethics of Care, Dependence, and Disability
What do We Want From a Theory of Justice?
Love’s Labor
The Minority Body
Social Work with Disabled People
The medical model, with a human face
Rights to social determinants of flourishing? A paradigm for disability and public health research and policy
Capabilities Theory and the Limits of Liberal Justice
Reconsidering Dignity Relationally
Care Ethics
The social model of disability
The autism predicament
Making disability public in deliberative democracy
The Social Model of Disability
| Highly cited | No |
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