Bouquet, Brigitte <br/><br/>
The rights and situation of handicapped people: The ethics of intervention 

 -  2014.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> Ways of thinking about disability have evolved over recent years, offering new ways of relating to vulnerable people. These changes involve new ways of understanding ethics and the law. Legislation reminds us that the handicapped person is first of all a person; in addition to specific rights, they possess the same rights as everybody else, to education, work, liberty of movement, and so on. Handicapped people are perceived as subjects with human rights, rather than objects to be protected. The ethics of vulnerability invites us to think about the subject with a threefold view of otherness: the otherness of the physical body, the other person’s alterity, and abandonment, which requires us to be vigilant in maintaining social relations. The “ethics of accompaniment” involves giving value to people in virtue of their ways of living and promoting their capabilities. There are multiple aspects of ethical responsibility: responsibility linked to freedom of the person, responsibility as participation, responsibility as protection, responsibility in prevention, and so on. These require all involved to work together and share information; this raises questions about the privacy of those involved.