Dependency as Ontology: Eastern Orthodox Reflections on Disability, Dependency, and Care

• Published in: Zygon Vol. 60; no. 1; p. 202
• Main Author: Karam McCray, Katherine
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Open Library of Humanities 07.05.2025
• Subjects: Americans with Disabilities Act 1990-US; Civil rights; Deafness; Disability studies; Handicapped accessibility; Medicine; Ontology; People with disabilities; Quality of life; Science and Orthodoxy around the World; Theology; Eastern Orthodox; critical disability studies; theological anthropology; disability; bioethics; social ethics; virtue ethics; feminist ethics; radical dependency; ethics of care

One of the fundamental hurdles for both Christian theology and medical ethics is characterizing disability as an aspect of human experience rather than a deviation from it. Anthropologies that anticipate a fixed subject articulate disability through the lens of pathology, alienating disabled experie...