Quality of Life and Human Difference: Genetic Testing, Health Care, and Disability

by Robert Wachbroit and Jerome E. Bickenbach

Book Overview

The role of quality assessments in social policy, especially health policy, and ethical and social issues raised by prenatal testing for disability are discussed in this analysis. A theme of the literature has been the role played by controversial assumptions about the quality of life of people with disabilities. This book turns the perspectives of disability scholars to issues that have largely been the province of health methodology, policy and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521539714
• ISBN13: 9780521539715
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.6" x 9.0"