Disabled people and the right to life
Subtitle: the protection and violation of disabled people's most basic human rights
By: edited by Luke Clements and Janet Read.
Contributors: Clements, L. J.; Read, Janet, 1947-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780415407137; 9780415407144; 9780203933459
Subjects: People with disabilities -- Civil rights; People with disabilities -- Civil rights -- Cross-cultural studies; Right to life; Human rights
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : life, disability, and the pursuit of human rights / Luke Clements, Janet Read; title: Mending, not ending : cost-effectiveness analysis, preferences and the right to a life with disabilities / David Wasserman, Adrienne Asch, Jerome Bickenbach; title: Deadly currents beneath calm waters : persons with disability and the right to life in Australia / Phillip French, Rosemary Kayess; title: It's my life - it's my decision? : assisted dying versus assisted living / Jane Campbell; title: Disability rights and resuscitation : do not attempt reconciliation? / Tom Shakespeare, Bryan Vernon; title: Disability, human rights and re-distributive justice : some reflections from the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan on popular perceptions of disabled people / Shaheen Sardar Ali; title: Human rights aspects of deaths of institutionalized people with disabilities in Europe / Jan Fiala, Oliver Lewis; title: Demonstrably awful : the right to life and the selective non-treatment of disabled babies and young children / Janet Read, Luke Clements; title: End-of-life decisions in neonatology and the right to life of the disabled newborn child : impressions from the Netherlands / Jozef H.H.M. Dorscheidt; title: The right to life and the right to health of children with disabilities before courts : some Latin American examples / Christian Courtis; title: Access to care and the right to life of disabled children in Bulgaria / Boika Rechel; title: Unheard voices : human rights issues of disabled youngsters from Romanian institutions / Mirela Saupe; title: The classification of newborn children : consequences for survival / Jónína Einarsdóttir.