Ableism Ethics and Governance

Friday, October 31, 2008
Posted in Human Rights | Tagged Human Rights

Ableism is about the favoritism for certain abilities for example cognition, competitiveness or consumerism and the often negative sentiment towards the lack of favored abilities and has a long history. Ethics of Ableism/Ableism Ethics is a framework of standards and values that (a) guide beliefs, processes and practices that produces based on ones abilities a particular kind of understanding of oneself, one’s body and one’s relationship with others of one’s species, other species and one’s environment and includes one being judged by others; (b) guide the favoritism for certain abilities and how one decide which abilities to favor over others; (c) guide the reactions towards humans and other biological entities that are seen -real or perceived- to lack these essential abilities.

The study of the Ethics of Ableism/Ableism Ethics, also includes (a) the study of those standards and values, incorporating the perspectives of many different groups especially of the people labeled as lacking certain ‘essential’ abilities or labeled as exhibiting ‘as negative seen abilities’; (b) the impact assessment of different forms of ableism onto different ethics theories and ethical principles including health ethics theories and their use to govern science and technology and health research, care and policy and (c) identification of ethical actions that flow from a favoritism for certain abilities.

Governance of Ableism/Ableism Governance is about how we govern ableism, the favoritism for certain abilities and the reaction towards non favored abilities. This network is intended to further the study of ableism ethics and the governance of ableism globally. This field is seen as an essential tool to help address existing and future challenges in health- research, ethics, care and policy, the governance of science and technology and other areas covered by the different streams below.

This is the home where various people who are interested in Ableism Ethics and Governance post their thoughts and what they find interesting.
The Network Members interests so far cover the following aspects of ableism and its ethics and governance

General inquiry into, application and development of Ableism Ethics and Governance
Ableism Ethics and Governance and Sustainable Development
Ableism Ethics and Governance and Sports
Ableism Ethics and Governance and general human performance enhancement;
Ableism Ethics and Governance and its intersection with Disability Ethics
Ableism Ethics and Governance and Science and Technology governance
Ableism Ethics and Governance and Law
Ableism Ethics and Governance History
Ableism Ethics and Governance and its intersection with health ethics, care and policy
Ableism in the media
Ableism and Urbanization
Ableism and Design
Ableism Ethics and Governance and Specieism
Ableism Ethics and Governance and a feminist approach to Ethics
Ableism Ethics and Governance and Gender
Ableism Ethics and Governance and consumerism
Ableism Ethics and Governance and anti-environmentalism
Ableism Ethics and Governance and Age-ism
History of Ableism

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