Vishnu Subrahmanyam’s review of The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality by Joel Michael Reynolds, published in the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, offers a compelling and interdisciplinary engagement with the book’s call to rethink how disability and pain are conceptualized in philosophy and bioethics. Subrahmanyam highlights Reynolds’s critique of the "ableist conflation" that collapses disability into suffering, while foregrounding care, relationality, and the politics of access. This review amplifies Reynolds’s anti-ableist vision and invites scholars across disciplines to reimagine what makes a life, and a world, worth living.
Subrahmanyam, Vishnu. "Sustaining Anti-Ableist Futures, Cripping Bioethics." International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, 2025
Vol. 18, No. 1 (2025): 198-205.
DOI: 10.3138/ijfab-2024-0015