Disability, Difference, Discrimination : Perspectives on Justice in Bioethics and Public Policy / Anita Silvers, David Wasserman, and Mary B. Mahowald
- Published
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., [1998]
- Copyright Date
- copyright 1998
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (viii, 343 pages).
- Additional Creators
- Mahowald, Mary Briody, Wasserman, David T., and Silvers, Anita
Access Online
- Series
- Language Note
- In English.
- Contents
- 1. Formal Justice -- 2. Distributive Justice -- 3. A Feminist Standpoint -- 4. Response -- Afterword: Disability, Strategic Action, and Reciprocity.
- Summary
- How should we respond to individuals with disabilities? What does it mean to be disabled, and is a disabled person necessarily less independent and less competent than a person who is not disabled? Is a life with a disability a life worth living? In this compelling book, three experts on disability issues, ethics, and the law address several pressing issues in bioethics, including the prospect of genetic discrimination, heroic treatment of seriously impaired neonates, and whether severely impaired competent individuals should be permitted or assisted to die. Anita Silvers, David Wasserman, and Mary Mahowald bring important philosophical theories to bear on subjects of concern in a wide variety of disciplines dealing with disability, and they do so in the context of the groundbreaking Americans With Disabilities Act. Disability, Difference, Discrimination will be of great interest to the legal, philosophical, and medical communities engaged in ongoing debates about the disabled.
- Subject(s)
- Digital File Characteristics
- data file
- Note
- Title from resource description page (viewed August 22, 2016).
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-327) and index.
View MARC record | catkey: 34532509