Vulnerability and Human Rights

Index

INDEX ‘‘ableism,’’ 100, 103 Afghanistan, 5, 87, 97 Africa, 17, 44, 77, 97 age and aging, 124–25 ‘‘Age of Reason,’’ 20 Ahmed, Leila, 60 Alzheimer’s disease, 106, 116, 124 American Episcopal Church, 75 anti-Semitism, 35, 87 Arendt, Hannah, 3, 12–13 Aristotle, 22 ‘‘artificial wombs,’’ 75 Asia, 5, 32, 44, 77, 97 Asoka, King, 59 Atlee, Clement, 92 Aum Shinrikyo, 85 Australia, 94, 137 avian flu, 32 Bales, Kevin, 58–59, 61–62 Bali, 139 Balkan wars, 19 Bangladesh, 77, 84 Bendix, Rheinhard, 91 Benjedid, Chadli, 85 Benveniste, Émile, 130 Berger, Peter L., 30, 99 Berlin, 17 Berlin Wall, 8 Berlin, Isaiah, 7–8, 12 Beveridge, William, 89 body, 5, 10, 17, 21, 25, 27, 36, 66, 78, 100– 101, 104, 117, 123 Bosnia, 66 crisis in, 81, 83 Botswana, 77 Bourdieu, Pierre, 27 bovine spongiform encephalopathy, 118 Britain, 12, 73, 83, 92, 94, 122, 136–38. See also United Kingdom Buddhism, 59 Burke, Edmund, 3 Buttle, Liz, 81 Cambodia, 17, 41, 66–67, 87 Canada, 137 Catholic Church, 75 Centre for the Protection of Children’s Rights, 77 Chechnya, 17, 66, 87 children, 17, 39, 41, 56, 62, 71, 78, 80, 83, 85, 96 China, 21, 37, 65, 77–78 Christ, 28, 74 Christianity, 76 citizenship, 89–92, 107–10, 131–32, 139 civil, 3, 90–91, 94, 99, 101, 113 contributory model of, 2–3, 72–73, 93–97, 103, 105 152 index citizenship (continued) cultural, 46–47, 50–53, 107, 109–11, 133 health, 112 intimate, 79 national, 47–49, 51, 90–91, 97, 109 reproductive, 80–81 sexual, 79, 81 world, 62–63 Clark, Kenneth, 89 and clash of civilizations, 64, 67 Cold War, 7, 55, 133 colonialism, 15, 122 Commission for Racial Equality (UK), 137 Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, 80 Cornaro, Luigi, 122 cosmopolitanism, 20–23, 58, 63–66, 141 cosmopolitan virtue, 22–24, 61, 64, 66–67 Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, 118 ‘‘culture wars,’’ 63 Darfur, 17, 19, 31, 41 Deaf community, 98–99 deafness, 98–99, 119 Declaration on the Rights of Disabled Persons , 109 Declaration on the Rights of Mentally Retarded Persons, 109 democracy, 25, 49, 58, 66, 93, 116, 119 Denmark, 137 Derrida, Jacques, 129 ‘‘designer babies,’’ 83, 115 devshirme system, 48 Dewey, John, 64, 66 diabetes, 119, 124 difference, 63, 65 disability, 35, 39, 98–102, 105–11 Disabled People’s International, 97 DNA testing, 114 Down syndrome, 110 Duchesneau, Sharon, 83 duties, 3, 22, 62, 67, 80, 93–94, 96 dwarfism, 119 Dworkin, Ronald, 108 East Timor, 4 Eastwood, Clint, 85 education/pedagogy, 40, 43, 51, 64, 77, 94, 98, 112 moral/sentimental, 40–42 Elias, Norbert, 15–17 Elixir Sulfanilamide, 118 embodiment, 9, 21–22, 27 Enlightenment, 13, 15, 63 epistemological disinterest, 54, 60 epistemology, 102 equality, 5, 91, 112 eugenics, 120 evil, 12–13 First World War, 12, 18, 92 Foucault, Michel, 26, 104 France, 2, 98 Fraser, Nancy, 55 Fukuyama, Francis, 90, 117–18 fundamentalism, 61, 86 Gandhi, Mahatma, 35–36 Gehlen, Arnold, 29–30 Geneva Convention, 71 genocide, 12, 14, 17–18, 31 Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas, 33 Germany, 12, 137–38 gerontology, 104, 123 Ghana, 4 Glazer, Nathan, 48 globalization, 4, 14, 23, 36, 46–47, 50–51, 63, 65, 76, 84, 86, 90, 132 ‘‘glocalisation,’’ 67 Gordon, Charles, 15 governmentality, 105, 135 Green, Thomas H., 89 Habermas, Jürgen, 13, 56, 103 Hague tribunal, 81 Hamas, 7, 85 Havel, Václav, 52 health, 1, 25, 37–38, 71, 76, 80, 110, 112, 115, 118 mental, 79, 105 ‘‘mirage of health,’’ 25 Hegel, G. W. F., 54–55 index 153 Heidegger, Martin, 27 Hiroshima, 18 hiv/aids, 32, 37, 42, 71, 77–78, 121 Hobbes, Thomas, 1, 32, 139 Holland, 137 Hollywood, 19, 42, 113 Holocaust, 18, 131 hospitality, 129, 134 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act (UK), 83 Human Genome Project, 117 Human Rights Watch, 37 humanity, 7, 14, 17, 126 crimes against, 20, 81 Huntington’s disease, 110, 119 Hussein, Saddam, 85 Huxley, Aldous, 114–15, 117, 121 ‘‘identity politics,’’ 107 Ignatieff, Michael, 5–7, 9 India, 84 intelligence (iq), 100, 105, 106 International Conference on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, 82 International Conference on Population and Development, 80, 118 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 111 International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights, 10, 36, 97, 112 Iraq, 5, 87, 140 ‘‘iron cage,’’ 39 irony, 62, 64, 64–65...