Disability Justice in Public Health Emergencies

This book details how existing public health emergency responses have failed and still fail to address the multi-faceted needs of disabled people. It analyzes complications in the context of epidemic and pandemic disease and emphasize that vulnerabilities imposed upon disabled people track and foster patterns of racial and class domination.

Joel Michael Reynolds is a Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Disability Studies at Georgetown University, Faculty in the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics and the Department of Family Medicine at the Georgetown University School of Medicine and Medical Center, and a Senior Advisor to and Fellow of The Hastings Center. They are author or coauthor of six books and over sixty publications spanning philosophy, public health, and biomedical ethics. Mercer E. Gary is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Drexel University and a Presidential Scholar at The Hastings Center. Her first book, The Limits of Care: Making Feminist Sense of Technology Relations, is under contract with Oxford University Press.

Why Only Disability Justice Can Prepare Us for the Next Public Health Emergency Mercer E. Gary and Joel Michael Reynolds Part I: Crisis in the Clinic 1. Disability Rights and Disability Justice as Gestalt Shifts for Triage Decision-Making in a Pandemic Katie Savin and Laura Guidry-Grimes 2. Incorporating Social Determinants of Health into Crisis Standards of Care April Dworetz 3. Tragic Choices: Disability, Triage, and Equity Amidst a Global Pandemic Joseph A. Stramondo Part II: Multiply Marginalized 4. "We are a Compromise": A Social Security Model of Disability During Covid-19 Katie Savin 5. Chronic Injustice: On Racialized Disablement and the Urgency of the Everyday Desiree Valentine 6. Long COVID and Disability: Navigating the Future Nicholas G. Evans 7. Patient-Centered Communication and Resource Allocation for Non-Speaking People During Crises Ally Peabody Smith Part III: Before the Next Pandemic 8. Long Covid and Disability Justice: Critiquing the Present, Forming the Future Sarah Clark Miller 9. Not Everything is a Pandemic: The Challenge of Disability Justice Perry Zurn 10. Education as Bioethics: Oppression and Pandemic Public Education Kevin Timpe 11. Building Institutional Trustworthiness in Emergency Conditions: Lessons from Disability Scholarship and Activism Corinne Lajoie