Book contents
- Disability, Health, Law, and Bioethics
- Disability, Health, Law, and Bioethics
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Disability: Definitions and Theories
- Part II Disability in the Beginning and the End of Life
- Part III Disability in the Clinical Setting
- Part IV Equality, Expertise, and Access
- Part V Disability, Intersectionality, and Social Movements
- Introduction to Part V
- 14 Destigmatizing Disability in the Law of Immigration Admissions
- 15 The Normative Bases of Medical Civil Rights
- 16 Judicial Representation: Speaking for Others from the Bench
- Part VI Quantifying Disability
15 - The Normative Bases of Medical Civil Rights
from Part V - Disability, Intersectionality, and Social Movements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 April 2020
- Disability, Health, Law, and Bioethics
- Disability, Health, Law, and Bioethics
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Disability: Definitions and Theories
- Part II Disability in the Beginning and the End of Life
- Part III Disability in the Clinical Setting
- Part IV Equality, Expertise, and Access
- Part V Disability, Intersectionality, and Social Movements
- Introduction to Part V
- 14 Destigmatizing Disability in the Law of Immigration Admissions
- 15 The Normative Bases of Medical Civil Rights
- 16 Judicial Representation: Speaking for Others from the Bench
- Part VI Quantifying Disability
Summary
Being designated as disabled under the law comes with an array of legal rights. These rights range from negative rights against discrimination by the state and by private actors in employment and public accommodations to positive rights to accommodations, financial (welfare) benefits, and even healthcare. Other statuses also trigger these kinds of protections, but few produce the same panoply of benefits: for example, race discrimination similarly elicits antidiscrimination protections by the state, but rarely any positive rights. Unemployment can yield welfare benefits, but is rarely protected under antidiscrimination law.
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- Disability, Health, Law, and Bioethics , pp. 200 - 210Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020