Bioethics and Disability - Toward a Disability-Conscious Bioethics (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
Release date:	July 2013
First published:	2011
Authors:	Alicia Ouellette (Dr)
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	386
ISBN-13:	978-1-107-61065-1
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > Medical ethics Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Disability: social aspects Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Social law > General Promotions
LSN:	1-107-61065-6
Barcode:	9781107610651

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