Bioethics and disability
Subtitle: toward a disability-conscious bioethics
By: Alicia Ouellette
Series: Disability law and policy series; Cambridge disability, law and policy series
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9780521110303
Subjects: Bioethical Issues; Moral and ethical aspects; Patient Advocacy; LAW / Medical Law & Legislation; Law and legislation; Discrimination against people with disabilities; Patient Rights; People with disabilities; Prejudice; Legal status, laws; Medical ethics; Medical Ethics; Disabled Persons
Description: "This book provides the tools for understanding the concerns, fears, and biases people with disabilities and bioethicists have that the health care setting is a dangerous place and that disability activists have nothing to offer bioethics"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The struggle: disability rights versus bioethics; title: Clashing perspectives and a call for reconciliation; title: Infancy; title: Childhood; title: The reproductive years; title: The adult years; title: The end of life; title: Toward a disability-conscious bioethics.