Philosophical Reflections on Disability - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Philosophical Reflections on Disability write by D. Christopher Ralston. This book was released on 2009-09-19. Philosophical Reflections on Disability available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This project draws together the diverse strands of the debate regarding disability in a way never before combined in a single volume. After providing a representative sampling of competing philosophical approaches to the conceptualization of disability as such, the volume goes on to address such themes as the complex interplay between disability and quality of life, questions of social justice as it relates to disability, and the personal dimensions of the disability experience. By explicitly locating the discussion of various applied ethical questions within the broader theoretical context of how disability is best conceptualized, the volume seeks to bridge the gap between abstract philosophical musings about the nature of disease, illness and disability found in much of the philosophy of medicine literature, on the one hand, and the comparatively concrete but less philosophical discourse frequently encountered in much of the disability studies literature. It also critically examines various claims advanced by disability advocates, as well as those of their critics. In bringing together leading scholars in the fields of moral theory, bioethics, and disability studies, this volume makes a unique contribution to the scholarly literature, while also offering a valuable resource to instructors and students interested in a text that critically examines and assesses various approaches to some of the most vexing problems in contemporary social and political philosophy.
The Rejected Body
The Rejected Body - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rejected Body write by Susan Wendell. This book was released on 2013-01-11. The Rejected Body available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Rejected Body argues that feminist theorizing has been skewed toward non-disabled experience, and that the knowledge of people with disabilities must be integrated into feminist ethics, discussions of bodily life, and criticism of the cognitive and social authority of medicine. Among the topics it addresses are who should be identified as disabled; whether disability is biomedical, social or both; what causes disability and what could 'cure' it; and whether scientific efforts to eliminate disabling physical conditions are morally justified. Wendell provides a remarkable look at how cultural attitudes towards the body contribute to the stigma of disability and to widespread unwillingness to accept and provide for the body's inevitable weakness.
The Faces of Intellectual Disability
The Faces of Intellectual Disability - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Faces of Intellectual Disability write by Licia Carlson. This book was released on 2010. The Faces of Intellectual Disability available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In a challenge to current thinking about cognitive impairment, this book explores what it means to treat people with intellectual disabilities in an ethical manner. Reassessing philosophical views of intellectual disability, Licia Carlson shows how we can affirm the dignity and worth of intellectually disabled people first by ending comparisons to nonhuman animals and then by confronting our fears and discomforts. Carlson presents the complex history of ideas about cognitive disability, the treatment of intellectually disabled people, and social and cultural reactions to them. Sensitive and clearly argued, this book offers new insights on recent trends in disability studies and philosophy.
Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge to Moral Philosophy
Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge to Moral Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge to Moral Philosophy write by Eva Feder Kittay. This book was released on 2010-05-18. Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge to Moral Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through a series of essays contributed by clinicians, medicalhistorians, and prominent moral philosophers, CognitiveDisability and Its Challenge to Moral Philosophy addresses theethical, bio-ethical, epistemological, historical, andmeta-philosophical questions raised by cognitive disability Features essays by a prominent clinicians and medicalhistorians of cognitive disability, and prominent contemporaryphilosophers such as Ian Hacking, Martha Nussbaum, and PeterSinger Represents the first collection that brings togetherphilosophical discussions of Alzheimer's disease,intellectual/developmental disabilities, and autism under therubric of cognitive disability Offers insights into categories like Alzheimer's, mentalretardation, and autism, as well as issues such as care,personhood, justice, agency, and responsibility
Feminist Disability Studies
Feminist Disability Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Feminist Disability Studies write by Kim Q. Hall. This book was released on 2011-10-24. Feminist Disability Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The essays in this volume are contributions to feminist disability studies. The essays constitute an interdisciplinary dialogue regarding the meaning of feminist disability studies and the implications of its insights regarding identity, the body, and experience.
