Moral wrongs, disadvantages, and disability: a critique of critical disability studies

This article examines and critiques the ideas found within critical disability studies (CDS).
The article argues that the accounts offered by CDS do not engage fully with the key ethical and political issues faced by disabled people.
CDS does not examine how things ought to be for disabled people in terms of right and wrong, good and bad. Because of this omission it is not able to provide a good political or theoretical framework through which to discuss disability.
The paper argues that an examination of disability must involve an engagement with moral and political issues, and must be sensitive to individual experiences as well as the social, material and economic circumstances.