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39 San Diego L. Rev. 693 (2002)
How Not to End Disability

handle is hein.journals/sanlr39 and id is 703 raw text is: How Not to End Disability JANET RADCLIFFE RICHARDS* TABLE OF CONTENTS I. THE ARGUMENTS ............................................................................................... 693 II. THE TRADITIONAL VIEW: DISABILITY AS INDIVIDUAL MISFORTUNE ................... 695 III. THE RADICAL VIEW: DISABILITY AS SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION .............................. 697 IV . LESSER W ORTH .................................................................................................. 699 V. DISENTANGLING EQUAL WORTH ........................................................................ 701 VI. INSTRUMENTAL VALUE AS THE CENTRAL ISSUE .................................................. 704 VII. THE LIMrrs OF SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION .............................................................. 706 A. D isabling the Able .................................................................................... 708 B. Abling the D isabled .................................................................................. 709 V III. A ITITrUDES ......................................................................................................... 711 IX . CONCLUSION ...................................................................................................... 712 I. THE ARGUMENTS When advances in genetic technology offer the chance of preventing or curing disease and disability, it is one thing to recommend caution on the grounds that these obvious benefits may be outweighed by associated harms. It is quite another to deny even that there are benefits to be outweighed, and that attempts to prevent disability by these means should be resisted outright. That, however, is a view that is increasingly widespread in the disability rights movement. * Reader in Bioethics, University College London.