Disability Justice in Public Health Emergencies

This book details how existing public health emergency responses have failed and still fail to address the multi-faceted needs of disabled people. It analyzes complications in the context of epidemic and pandemic disease and emphasize that vulnerabilities imposed upon disabled people track and foster patterns of racial and class domination.

Auteur

Joel Michael Reynolds is a Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Disability Studies at Georgetown University, Faculty in the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics and the Department of Family Medicine at the Georgetown University School of Medicine and Medical Center, and a Senior Advisor to and Fellow of The Hastings Center. They are author or coauthor of six books and over sixty publications spanning philosophy, public health, and biomedical ethics.

Mercer E. Gary is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Drexel University and a Presidential Scholar at The Hastings Center. Her first book, The Limits of Care: Making Feminist Sense of Technology Relations, is under contract with Oxford University Press.