Editorial
Why Only Disability Justice Can Prepare Us for the Next Public Health Emergency
Disability Justice in Public Health Emergencies, pp 1-13
2025
Abstract
Disability Justice in Public Health Emergencies is the first book to highlight contributions from critical disability scholarship to the fields of public health ethics and disaster ethics. In this introduction to the volume, we lay out the larger landscape of those fields in relation to disability studies and activism, showing how engagement with the latter is essential to achieving disability justice in the broadest sense of the term. Across 11 chapters, the contributors detail how existing public health emergency responses have failed and still fail to address the multifaceted needs of disabled people. But the central claim of the book is positive: the ethical and political insights of disability theory and activism provide key resources for equitable disaster planning for all. Disability Justice in Public Health Emergencies builds on the existing efforts of disability communities to articulate emergency planning priorities and response measures that take into account the large body of qualitative and quantitative research on disabled people's health, needs, and experiences. It is only by listening to disabled people's voices that we will all fare better in future public health emergencies.
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- Title
- Why Only Disability Justice Can Prepare Us for the Next Public Health Emergency
- Creators
- Mercer E. GaryJoel Michael Reynolds
- Contributors
- Joel Michael Reynolds (Editor)Mercer E. Gary (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Disability Justice in Public Health Emergencies, pp 1-13
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Edition
- 1
- Number of pages
- 13
- Resource Type
- Editorial
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- English and Philosophy
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85210693168
- Other Identifier
- 991021932709904721