The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality

by Joel Michael Reynolds

Book Overview

A philosophical challenge to the ableist conflation of disability and pain

More than 2,000 years ago, Aristotle said: "let there be a law that no deformed child shall live." This idea is alive and well today. During the past century, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. argued that the United States can forcibly sterilize intellectually disabled women and philosopher Peter Singer argued for the right of parents to euthanize...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517907780
• ISBN13: 9781517907785
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.1"