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One principle and a fourth fallacy of disability studies
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This brief paper shows that the idea of benefits to the subject compensating for the harms of disability is at best self defeating and at worst sinister. Equally benefits to third parties while real are dubious as compensating factors. This shows that disabilities are just that, a net loss and not a net gain.
- Disability
- impairment
- handicap
- equality
- social conception of disability
- harmed condition conception of disability
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