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■NOZAKI Yasunobu June 30, 2011 Toward the Ethics of Life Affirmation: From a Perspective of Disability Studies, Hakutakusha, 216ｐ. ISBN-10: 4768479391 ISBN-13: 978-4768479391　2310　[amazon]／[kinokuniya] ※

■Contents

Does the current ethics of Rawls and Singer affirm our lives? Isn't there any hidden border that separates people who are worth living from people who are not?　This book examines the ethics from a perspective of disability studies and shapes the ethics of life affirmation. (From the publisher)

■Introduction of the Author / From the Editor

The author is an up-and-coming ethicist who has studied under Professor MORIOKA Masahiro（Osaka Prefecture University）and TATEIWA Shin'ya (Ritsumeikan University). While participating in disabled people's movements, as himself with physical disability, the author questions "the ethics of normal people" in the quest for a society where people with disability can live their lives in full.

■Table of Contents

　Introduction　Possibility and Danger of Questioning Human Beings　5

　Chapter 1　Viewpoint of Disability Studies　15
　　1　What Is Disability Studies?: Medical Model and Social Model of Disabilities　16
　　2　History of Disabled People's Movements in Japan　32
　　3　Eugenic Thoughts and Discrimination against Disabled People　50

　Chapter 2　Current Ethics and Distributive Justice　67
　　1　Utilitarianism and Liberalism　68
　　2　Thoughts of Amartya Sen 　81
　　3　Basic Income and Social Security　100

　Chapter 3　Pit of Bioethics: Criticism against Singer's Ethics　117
　　1　Singer's Anilnal Liberation and Bioethics　118
　　2　Singer's Ethics of Globalization: Ethics that Crosses the Border　138

　Chapter 4　Another Form of Ethics　153
　　1　Ethics of Unmentionable　154
　　2　Others and Ethics of Justice　170

　Final Chapter　Toward the Ethics of Life Affirmation: Theory of Justice that Fights off the Justification of the Border　189

　Afterword　211