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Assessing quality of life / Robert Wachbroit -- Predicting genetic disability while commodifying health / Anita Silvers -- Preventing genetically transmitted disabilities while respecting persons with disabilities / Dan W. Brock -- Nord -- Preventing the existence of people with disabilities / Jeff McMahan -- Where is the sin in synecdoche / Adrienne Asch and David Wasserman -- Social context of individual choice / Tom Shakespeare -- Disability and health systems assessment / Jerome Bickenbach.

This study brings together two important literatures together in the one volume. One concerns the role of quality assessments in social policy, especially health policy. The second concerns ethical and social issues raised by prenatal testing for disability. Hitherto, these two literatures have had little contact with each other: few scholars have written about both, or have compared the two domains in a systematic way, while people with disabilities and disability scholars are underrepresented in recent discussion on health policy and quality of assessment. This book turns the perspectives of disability scholars on issues that have largely been the province of health methodology, policy and philosophy, while angling philosophical policy analysis on problems that have largely been the province of disability scholarship. This volume will be sought after by bioethicists, philosophers, and specialists in disability studies and healthcare economics.