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.

Author: Ouellette, Alicia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: Bioethics and Disability
Pages: 00386 (Encrypted PDF)
On Sale: 2011-04-25
SKU-13/ISBN: 9780521110303
Category: Law : Medical Law & Legislation