32: Disability Moral Asymmetry

Dec 16, 2021

In this episode, the Director of the Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs at San Diego State University, Dr. Joe Stramondo, discusses his paper  "Causing Disability, Causing Non-Disability: What's the Moral Difference?". In this conversation, he describes society's standard view of disability and the reasons why there is a moral asymmetry between causing a disability and not causing a disability. This important conversation gets to the core of many debates about disability, especially in medical settings.

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Episode transcripts can be found at http://disabilityhealth.jhu.edu/included/

Useful Links: 

• Published Work: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4FPA1i4AAAAJ&hl=en
• SDS Webpage: https://disstudies.org/