Bioethics and disability :
Ouellette, Alicia,
Bioethics and disability : toward a disability-conscious bioethics / Bioethics & Disability Alicia Ouellette. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (xiv, 371 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge disability law and policy series . - Cambridge disability law and policy series. .
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
The struggle: disability rights versus bioethics -- Clashing perspectives and a call for reconciliation -- Infancy -- Childhood -- The reproductive years -- The adult years -- The end of life -- Toward a disability-conscious bioethics.
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.
9780511978463 (ebook)
People with disabilities--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States.
Discrimination against people with disabilities--Law and legislation--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
Medical ethics--United States.
KF480 / .O92 2011
174/.957
Bioethics and disability : toward a disability-conscious bioethics / Bioethics & Disability Alicia Ouellette. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (xiv, 371 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge disability law and policy series . - Cambridge disability law and policy series. .
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
The struggle: disability rights versus bioethics -- Clashing perspectives and a call for reconciliation -- Infancy -- Childhood -- The reproductive years -- The adult years -- The end of life -- Toward a disability-conscious bioethics.
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.
9780511978463 (ebook)
People with disabilities--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States.
Discrimination against people with disabilities--Law and legislation--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
Medical ethics--United States.
KF480 / .O92 2011
174/.957