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Rejecting 'Bad Bodies': Defending a Relational Model of Disability

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dc.contributor.advisorMcGeer, Victoria
dc.contributor.authorAhmad, Alya
dc.date.accessioned2021-08-18T12:22:49Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-09-30T00:10:13Z
dc.date.available2021-08-18T12:22:49Z
dc.date.available2026-09-30T00:10:13Z
dc.date.created2021-05-10
dc.date.issued2021-08-18
dc.description.abstractDisability is often unreflectively taken to be intrinsically harmful, but Elizabeth Barnes rejects this with a model that takes disability to be neutral with respect to wellbeing. I argue that a model of disability ought not to characterize harm as arising from the body. A model ought to have a neutral evaluation of the body, but maintain disability as a harmful state. I defend such a model of disability.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01vm40xv69v
dc.identifier.urihttps://theses-dissertations.princeton.edu/handle/88435/dsp01vm40xv69v
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.titleRejecting 'Bad Bodies': Defending a Relational Model of Disabilityen_US
dc.typePrinceton University Senior Theses
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pu.certificateProgram in Values and Public Lifeen_US
pu.contributor.authorid920152030
pu.date.classyear2021en_US
pu.departmentPhilosophyen_US
pu.mudd.walkinNoen_US
pu.pdf.coverpageSeniorThesisCoverPage

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