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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.

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• Full title: Bioethics and Disability
• Subtitle: Toward a Disability-Conscious Bioethics
• Author: Alicia Ouellette
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 386
• EAN: 9780521110303
• ISBN: 0521110300
• ID: 04376346
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 660 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. April 2011

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