Project Summary

Disability is a global reality about which too few give thought until they, a family member, or friend experiences disability first-hand. As a result, people without immediate experience or regular encounter with persons with disability remain unconcerned with this largest and most diverse minority across the globe (15% of the Earth’s population). Disability Ethics/Preferential Justice engages the work of social scientists, their conversation partners in humanities and health sciences, scholars in systematic, moral, and ecclesial theological disciplines. The book introduces disability basics, realities, and etiquette; reviews landmark contributions of the United Nations and World Health Organization; and utilizes theological traditions on the Trinitarian basis of the imago Dei, Natural Law, Catholic Social Teaching on the option for the poor/marginalized, and the imperatives of disability inclusion for the Church and the world.

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