Bioethics and Disability : Toward a Disability-Conscious Bioethics Paperback / softback
by Alicia (Dr) Ouellette
Part of the Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series series
Paperback / softback
Description
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.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:386 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:11/07/2013
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- ISBN:9781107610651
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:386 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:11/07/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9781107610651
