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Disability, Difference, Discrimination

Perspectives on Justice in Bioethics and Public Policy

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Disability, Difference, Discrimination

Perspectives on Justice in Bioethics and Public Policy

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How should we respond to individuals with disabilities? What does it mean to be disabled, and is a disabled person necessarily less independent and less competent than a person who is not disabled? Is a life with a disability a life worth living? In this compelling book, three experts on disability issues, ethics, and the law address several pressing issues in bioethics, including the prospect of genetic discrimination, heroic treatment of seriously impaired neonates, and whether severely impaired competent individuals should be permitted or assisted to die. Anita Silvers, David Wasserman, and Mary Mahowald bring important philosophical theories to bear on subjects of concern in a wide variety of disciplines dealing with disability, and they do so in the context of the groundbreaking Americans With Disabilities Act. Disability, Difference, Discrimination will be of great interest to the legal, philosophical, and medical communities engaged in ongoing debates about the disabled.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 1 Formal Justice
Chapter 3 2 Distributive Justice
Chapter 4 3 A Feminist Standpoint
Chapter 5 4 Response:Silvers on Wasserman and Mahowald; Wasserman on Silvers and Mahowald; Mahowald on Silvers and Wasserman
Chapter 6 Afterword: Disability
Chapter 7 Bibliography

Product details

Published Jan 01 2000
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 250
ISBN 9780585180205
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Series Point/Counterpoint: Philosophers Debate Contemporary Issues
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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