Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-176) and index.

General introduction : human rights and disability -- interdisciplinary perspectives / Alicia Oullette -- Remarks on a disability-conscious bioethics / John-Stewart Gordon -- Theology, disability, and human rights : difficult past, promising future / Johann-Christian P�oder -- Grounding disability and human rights with the capabilities approach / Christopher A. Riddle -- Human rights and persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities : an elusive but emerging paradigm / Donato Tarulli, Dorothy Griffiths and Frances Owen -- On human rights and human duties : is there a moral obligation to inclusion? / Holger Burckhart and Bennet Jäger -- The right to inclusive education : practical implications in German schools / Petr Frantik -- Disability rights, legal and moral / Hans S. Reinders -- From manifesto to action : transforming the aspiration of disability human rights into accountable government action / Jerome Bickenbach -- Human and civil models of rights : healthy and ill disabled and access to healthcare / Anita Silvers and Leslie Pickering Francis -- Agency and disability : a rights-based approach / Michael Boylan -- Afterword / Akiko Ito.

"The formerly established medically-based idea of disability, with its charity-based approach to treatment and services, is being replaced by a human rights-based approach in which people with impairments are no longer considered medical problems, totally dependent on the beneficence of non-impaired people in society, but have fundamental rights to support, inclusion, and participation. This interdisciplinary book examines the diverse concerns that people with impairments face in the context of human rights, provides insights into new developments on important issues relating human rights to disability, and features new approaches and solutions to vital problems in the current debate."--