Bioethics and Disability (Instant Digital Access Code Only)

Edition : 1st, 2011
Author(s) : Alicia Ouellette

Bioethics and Disability (Instant Digital Access Code Only)
- ISBN: 9780521110303
- SKU: 264537V
- Format: VitalSource eBook/PDF
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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 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.