Bioethics and disability toward a disability-conscious bioethics

• Main Author: Ouellette, Alicia (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2011
• Series: Cambridge disability, law and policy series
• Subjects: Bioethical Issues; Disabled Persons; Patient Advocacy; Patient Rights; Prejudice; Ethics, Medical; United States
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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 th...

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• Machine generated contents note: 1. The struggle: disability rights versus bioethics; 2. Clashing perspectives and a call for reconciliation; 3. Infancy; 4. Childhood; 5. The reproductive years; 6. Adulthood; 7. The end of life; 8. Toward a disability-conscious bioethics.