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Bioethics and disability, toward a disability-conscious bioethics, Alicia Ouellette

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Bioethics and disability

dictionaries

Alicia Ouellette

Cambridge disability law and policy series

toward a disability-conscious bioethics

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

The struggle: disability rights versus bioethics -- Clashing perspectives and a call for reconciliation -- Infancy -- Childhood -- The reproductive years -- The adult years -- The end of life -- Toward a disability-conscious bioethics

Bioethics & Disability