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J Med Ethics 2009;35:570-572 doi:10.1136/jme.2009.030684
  • Paper
  • Ethics

Philosophy meets disability

  1. P Louhiala
  1. Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
  1. Correspondence to Pekka Louhiala, Vuorikatu 17 as 3, FI-13100 Hämeenlinna, Finland; pekka.louhiala{at}helsinki.fi
  • Received 17 April 2009
  • Accepted 19 May 2009

Abstract

The question “what is disability” and its implications are addressed in a new book Arguing about disability: philosophical perspectives, which aims to fill the gap between disability studies and philosophy. The structure of the book has been organised roughly on the basis of three branches of philosophy: metaphysics, political philosophy and ethics. One of the main themes of the book is the characterisation of a third way of thinking about disability, a way between two extremes, the medical and social models of disability.

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  • Competing interests None declared.

  • Provenance and Peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

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