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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      07 June 2011
      25 April 2011
      ISBN:
      9780511978463
      9780521110303
      9781107610651
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511978463
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.64kg, 386 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.51kg, 386 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
      Subjects:
      Medico-Legal, Bioethics and Health Law, Law, Human Rights, Medicine, Medical Law, Ethics and forensic Medicine
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    Series:
    Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
    Subjects:
    Medico-Legal, Bioethics and Health Law, Law, Human Rights, Medicine, Medical Law, Ethics and forensic Medicine
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    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, it proposes a new model for medical decision making that is both sensitive to and sensible about the fact of disability in medical cases.

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    '… impressive … a worthwhile contribution to the field of bioethics and, hopefully, a model for people who are so struck by these thorny issues that they are likely to take up the challenge to be disability-conscious.'

    Source: Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics

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