Impairment and Disability: Law and Ethics at the Beginning and End of Life

by Laura Williamson and Sheila A.M. McLean

Book Overview

This book explores legislation intended to protect the interests of people with disabilities or impairments. Considering a broad range of ethical and legal concerns which arise in issues of life, death and disability, it covers the social and legal responses to the equality rights of disabled people, focusing on those responses to:

the right to life the end of life assisted suicide.

This work engages with contemporary debates,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844720403
• ISBN13: 9781844720408
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Routledge Cavendish
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"