NDPR Jessica Begon Disability Through the Lens of Justice

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Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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Jessica Begon, Disability Through the Lens of Justice, Oxford University Press, 2023, 290pp., $100.00 (hbk) ISBN 9780198875611.

Reviewed by Sara Purinton, Princeton University

Jessica Begon aims to give an account of disability that can help guide “how disabled individuals should be justly treated in the public policy of liberal democratic states” (1). Such an account, Begon argues, should track the disadvantages associated with atypical bodily and cognitive features while remaining sensitive to the testimony of individuals generally classed as disabled who claim that such features are not inherently negative (something that we should seek to cure, fix, mitigate, etc.). With these aims in mind, Begon argues that we should understand disability as the restriction in our ability to perform tasks that we are...