Bioethics and Disability: Toward a Disability-Conscious Bioethics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521110303)

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, Bioethics and Disability proposes a new model for medical decision making that is both sensitive to and sensible about the fact of disability in medical cases. Disability-conscious bioethics will bring together disability experts and bioethicists to identify and mitigate disability bias in our health care systems.

Author: Alicia Ouellette
ISBN-10: 0521110300
ISBN-13: 9780521110303
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/25/2011
Pages: 386
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.90d