Healthy people and biochemical enhancement: A new paradigmatic approach to the enhancement of human beings?

Abstract The authors analyse a new paradigmatic approach to the enhancement of human beings proposed in transhumanist visions. Transhumanist authors promote the biochemical enhancement of healthy people via the concepts of bio-happiness and bio-love (love drugs). The paper is based on an assessment of the value attributed to the lives of disabled people vis-à-vis those of healthy people. The value imbalance in the transhumanist conception is criticized on the grounds that it is an incorrect response to the posthuman urge to redefine human beings. The authors’ final standpoint is that the value of human beings should be derived primarily from our naturalness and that artificiality (which is indisputably a part of people) should be subordinate to this.

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Expanding the Horizons of Disability Law in India: A Study from a Human Rights Perspective

The Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics ◽

10.1111/jlme.12091 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 41 (4) ◽

pp. 807-820

Author(s):

Tushti Chopra

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Third Generation ◽

Human Beings ◽

Disabled People ◽

Human Right ◽

Disability Law

Human rights are basic, inalienable, interdependent, and universally recognized rights that are sine qua non for existence and growth of any human to be his best. These human rights are to be enjoyed by all human beings (individually or collectively) by virtue of being human, irrespective of their limitations or disabilities; due to the stated reason, the rights of disabled people as a “group right” are recognized as a third-generation human right.

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R-E-S-P-E-C-T: The Relationship Between Being Respected and Quality of Life of Disabled People

Disability Studies Quarterly ◽

10.18061/dsq.v38i2.6168 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 38 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Carli Friedman

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

United States ◽

Civil Rights ◽

The United States ◽

Human Beings ◽

Disabled People ◽

Research Questions ◽

The Right ◽

The Relationship

The United Nations exclaims "all human beings have the right to be treated with dignity and respect" (Annan, 2005, p. 34). Yet, disabled people have long been denied respect in the United States and have been subjected to disability oppression and ableism. For these reasons, the aim of this study was to explore the relationship between respect and disability, particularly respect's impact on the quality of life of disabled people. We had two research questions: (1.) what factors predict disabled people being respected? and, (2.) how does being respected impact the quality of life of disabled people? To explore these questions, we used secondary Personal Outcome Measures® data from approximately 1,500 disabled people; we analyzed this data to examine relationships between disabled people's interpretations of feeling and being respected, and their quality of life. Our findings revealed being respected had a significant impact on every area of ones' quality of life. Problematically, this also included areas which should be considered non-negotiable fundamental human and civil rights, that should not depend on if, and how, people respect disabled people. While the attitudes underlying the disrespect of disabled people are harmful and problematic, human and civil rights should be inalienable – ones' access to exercise their rights, to safety, to health, and to many other domains should not depend on others' attitudes about, and treatment toward, you.

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Need of access facilities for persons with hearing disabilities

IP Journal of Otorhinolaryngology and Allied Science ◽

10.18231/j.ijoas.2021.013 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 64-69

Author(s):

Arun A Banik ◽

Aninda Duti Banik

Keyword(s):

Equal Opportunity ◽

Normal Population ◽

Human Beings ◽

Disabled People ◽

Public Buildings ◽

Public Places ◽

Persons With Disabilities ◽

The Disabled ◽

Free Environment ◽

Barrier Free

Accessibility can be refer as the "ability to access" and benefit from some system or entity. The concept access facilities focuses on enabling barrier free environment for persons with disabilities, or enabling access through the use of assistive technology brings overall development in accessibility and benefits to everyone. All human beings are physically disabled for some time in their lives. But those who remain healthy and without disability all their lives are very few. Thus, public buildings should be accessible and barrier-free to both able body and disabled population as well. Persons with disability find it difficult to gain access into and operate freely without assistance in many public buildings in India. This publication is an attempt to provide information an inventory of facilities required for disabled people in public places.It is an observational study covered the identification and ascertaining the functional state of access facilities available including schools etc. A total of 10 such public buildings samples were observed. The results show that major facilities required by disabled people are lacking in many public places. Some of the access facilities identified in few public buildings are in poor state of operation. However, absence of such key facilities restricts the activities of normal population as well as physical disability people. Hence, they cannot work freely in such environment and become productive as tax-paying members of the nation. Due to shortfall or perhaps total neglect in provision of such access facilities, the movement, competence and talents are being restricted for the disabled population. Hence, equal opportunity and non-discrimination brings good equation for every citizen in this developing country constitute a barrier free environment for the development of their abilities. At last, the society at large is deprived of the abilities and talents in people with disabilities.

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Energy Efficient Smart Guidance System For Visually Challenged Persons

International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering - 2 ◽

10.35940/ijrte.f1139.059120 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 1178-1182

Keyword(s):

Energy Efficient ◽

Guidance System ◽

Blind People ◽

Human Beings ◽

Disabled People ◽

The Social ◽

Visually Challenged ◽

Reliable Solution ◽

Physically Challenged ◽

Visually Disabled

One of the social responsibilities of emerging technologies is to help physically challenged people. One of them is to assist the blind people to walk alone. The main challenges confronting the visually disabled people while walking is that they are not conscious of the environment as they move in and out because they are not fully aware of their position and direction with regard to traffic and barriers in their path. Smart shoes provide the blind people with auditory assistance in coping with the difficulties they face in walking like regular human beings. The objective is likely to make a self direction framework which helps outwardly tested (or daze) individuals to walk autonomously. The idea is more about the smart shoes that warn visually disabled people in their ways to challenge which may allow them to move with less collision. The target is to tackle a reliable solution that involves a shoe interacts with users through vibrations and audio alert. Our key contribution is towards energy efficient self guidance system.

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Disabled People in Play.Toward an Existential and Differential Phenomenology of Moving with Dis-Ease

Physical Culture and Sport Studies and Research ◽

10.1515/pcssr-2015-0007 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 65 (1) ◽

pp. 14-23 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Henning Eichberg

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Human Condition ◽

Second Step ◽

Existential Phenomenology ◽

Human Beings ◽

Political Practice ◽

Disabled People ◽

Politics Of Recognition ◽

Wheelchair Users ◽

Important Field

Abstract Disability has become an increasingly important field of investment for modern welfare policy-visible in architecture for wheelchair users as well as in budgets for health care. This documents a gain in solidarity, but it implies also some challenges of practical and philosophical character. Play and games (of, for, and with disabled people) make these challenges bodily. These challenges will here be explored in three steps. In the first step, we discover the paradoxes of equality and categorization, normalization and deviance in the understanding of disability. Ableism, a negative view on disability, is just around the corner. The Paralympic sports for disabled people make this visible. However, play with disabled people shows alternative ways. And it calls to our attention how little we know, so far, about how disabled people play. The second step leads to an existential phenomenology of disablement. Sport and play make visible to what degree the building of “handicap” is a cultural achievement. All human beings are born disabled and finally die disabled-and inbetween they create hindrances to make life dis-eased. Dis-ease is a human condition. However, and this is an important third step, disablement and dis-eased life are not just one, but highly differentiated. These differences are relevant for political practice and have to be recognized. Attention to differences opens up a differential phenomenology of disablement and of disabled people in play-as a basis for politics of recognition.

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Opportunities for disabled people through ICTs: a perspective from Turkey

International Journal on Disability and Human Development ◽

10.1515/ijdhd-2015-0019 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 15 (3) ◽

Author(s):

H. Filiz Alkan Meshur

Keyword(s):

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

New Technologies ◽

Human Life ◽

Point Of View ◽

Healthy People ◽

Urban Spaces ◽

Disabled People ◽

Information And Communication ◽

Employment Education ◽

Education And Employment

AbstractInformation and communication technologies (ICTs), which have developed rapidly in recent years, have brought notable changes to human life. Additionally, the use of ICTs also has importance from the point of view of disabled people. Because of physical deficiencies, disabled people make more effort to access knowledge and services relative to healthy people. Also, they face some important constraints in urban spaces. The planning of urban spaces according to the requirements of disabled people is a necessity of being in a contemporary society. Furthermore, offering some opportunities for disabled people through ICTs should be considered. While healthy people do not have any limitations, disabled people face some important constraints in using these technologies. With this in mind, designing ICTs without considering disabled people will cause discrimination against them by society. In addition, e-learning and teleworking concepts, which have arisen together with ICTs, are an important perspective related to education and employment policies for disabled people. In this paper, the importance of considering the needs and problems of disabled people in accessing ICTs is emphasized, and also this paper aims to evaluate opportunities offered by new technologies for disabled people in Turkey. The uses of areas of ICTs seen as a tool in order to raise the quality of life of disabled people are evaluated, and the problems and opportunities are revealed. People with intellectual disabilities are not addressed within this study. Instead, it focuses on individuals with physical disabilities such as visual, hearing, and orthopedic impairment. Opportunities offered by ICTs for disabled people are evaluated. Also, recommendations are developed about the accessibility of disabled people to employment, education, health, and social and urban services in Turkey. Another aim of this paper is to create awareness for disabled people about the use of ICTs. Firstly, a literature review was done, and in addition to the print and electronic resources, suggestions and opinions were taken from public institutions and organizations. Furthermore, the needs and constraints of disabled people are explored for the use of ICTs by conducting in-depth interviews.

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