Disability and the Good Human Life

Jerome E. Bickenbach is the leader of the Disability Policy Unit and professor in the Department of Health Sciences and Health Policy at the University of Lucerne and Swiss Paraplegic Research, Nottwil, Switzerland. Franziska Felder is a lecturer in education at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and a visiting scholar at University College London. Barbara Schmitz is an Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Basel, Switzerland.

1. Moral worth and severe intellectual disability - a hybrid view Simo Vehmas and Ben Curtis; 2. 'Something else?' - cognitive disability and the human form of life Barbara Schmitz; 3. Disability (not) as a harmful condition: the received view challenged Thomas Schramme; 4. Nasty, brutish and short? On the predicament of disability and embodiment Tom Shakespeare; 5. Recognizing disability Halvor Hanish; 6. Understanding the relationship between disability and well-being David Wasserman and Adrienne Asch; 7. Disability and the wellbeing agenda Jerome Bickenbach; 8. Disability and quality of life: an Aristotelian discussion Hans S. Reinders; 9. Living a good life…in adult-size diapers Anna Stubblefield; 10. Ill, but well: a phenomenology of wellbeing in chronic illness Havi Carel; 11. Natural diversity and justice for people with disabilities Christopher A. Riddle; 12. Inclusion and the good human life Franziska Felder.