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4 - A Disability Rights–Informed Ethics of Care

Interdependence and Common Humanity

from Part I - Care Policy Tensions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2022

Yvette Maker
Affiliation:
University of Melbourne
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This chapter discusses efforts to transcend disagreements between carer and disability rights perspectives in relation to care and support. The tension between these perspectives rests on a dichotomous view of people with disabilities as being either dependent on others and in need of ‘care’ or independent holders of rights. Ethics of care theorists have challenged this dichotomy, arguing that interdependence – both giving and receiving care – must be reconceived as normal and universal human experiences and elements of citizenship. Some disability scholars have engaged with the ethics of care perspective, drawing especially on a human rights perspective on disability, to devise an approach that can recognize and meet care and support needs on the basis of shared dignity rather than shared vulnerability. This would require the introduction of care and support policies that recognize and extend support to people in all forms of care and support relationships, recognize diversity of need, impairment and preference and facilitate the exercise of the full suite of citizenship and human rights. While this approach is promising, some conceptual differences between the carer and disability rights perspectives remain unaddressed, including a persistent tendency to prioritize one side of the care or support relationship over the other.

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Care and Support Rights After Neoliberalism
Balancing Competing Claims Through Policy and Law
, pp. 80 - 94
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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