The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) aims at
empowering people with disabilities by granting them a number of civil and political, but also …

This book presents the argument that health has special moral importance because of the
disadvantage one suffers when subjected to impairment or disabling barriers. Christopher A …

Ruger's (2011) framework of shared health governance, which calls upon various actors
from state governments and private sectors to communities and individuals to all uphold …

In this paper, I argue that health plays a special role in the promotion of well-being within the
capabilities approach framework. I do this by first presenting a scenario involving two …

This paper aims to establish three things. First, that the capabilities approach is the best
candidate for an adequate theory of justice to provide just educational opportunities for …

In this chapter I argue that health has special moral importance. I do so by suggesting that
disadvantage ought to be the proper target of concern when examining justice. If we explore …

I am most grateful to those who have commented on my article. Several of the comments
relate to “what's next” and “greater detail” in the shared health governance (SHG) project …

In Martha Nussbaum's Creating Capabilities, she makes clear that “capabilities are seen not
as isolated atoms but as a set of opportunities that interact and inform one …