Bioethics and Disability: Toward a Disability-Conscious Bioethics

by Alicia Ouellette

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521110300
• ISBN13: 9780521110303
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"