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Bioethics and Disability provides tools for understanding the concerns, fears and biases that have convinced some people with disabilities that the health care setting is a dangerous place and some bioethicists that disability activists have nothing to offer bioethics. It wrestles with the charge that bioethics as a discipline devalues the lives of persons with disabilities, arguing that reconciling the competing concerns of the disability community and the autonomy-based approach of mainstream bioethics is not only possible, but essential for a bioethics committed to facilitating good medical decision making and promoting respect for all persons, regardless of ability. Through in-depth case studies involving newborns, children and adults with disabilities, it proposes a new model for medical decision making that is both sensitive to and sensible about the fact of disability in medical cases.Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-139780521110303
eBay Product ID (ePID)99976687
Product Key Features
Number of Pages386 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameBioethics and Disability: Toward a Disability-Conscious Bioethics
Publication Year2011
SubjectMedicine, Disability, Healthcare System
TypeTextbook
AuthorAlicia Ouellette
SeriesCambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
Dimensions
Item Height229 mm
Item Weight660 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorAlicia Ouellette