Disability and social justice

Social Justice Through Civil Justice

Engineering and Social Justice

Health and social justice.

Theories of social justice applied to health care have typically focused on justifying health care (medicine and public health) as a special social good. Rationalizing greater equality in health care is typically the point of departure for most approaches to medical ethics, even those that include health assessment. In general, these approaches have paid relatively little attention to universal...

Critical Race Theory, Feminism, and Disability: Reflections on Social Justice and Personal Identity

Since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, those who fight for disability rights can acknowledge some progress in the situation of people with disabilities but can also recognize that the insights from critical race theory and feminism have lessons for the disability rights movement as well. This article considers the application of critical race theory and feminist theory to suc...

Social Justice in Social Policy

It is claimed that social justice is firmly on the political agenda and is a major concern of numerous policy documents, think tanks and research units. However, ̳social justice‘ can be seen as a poorly defined ̳motherhood and apple pie‘ term. Virtually everyone is in favour of ̳social justice‘ but their interpretations of the term vary widely (there are many different varieties of apple!). We ...