Disability Bioethics: Moral Bodies, Moral Difference

By: Jackie Leach Scully

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Synopsis: Jackie Leach Scully argues that bioethics cannot avoid the task of considering the moral meaning of disability in humans--beyond simply regulating reproductive choices or new areas of biomedical research. By focusing on the experiential and empirical reality of impairment and drawing on recent work in disability studies, Scully brings new attention to complex ethical questions surrounding disability. Impairment is variously considered as a set of social relations and practices, as experienced embodiment, as an emancipatory movement, and as a biomedical phenomenon. In this way, disability is joined to the general late-twentieth-century trend of attending to difference as a significant and central axis of subjectivity and social life.

Book Quality:: Excellent
Book Size:: 203 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9780742551220
Publisher:: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Incorporated
Date of Addition:: 08/19/09
Copyrighted By:: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Incorporated
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Science, Disability-Related, Health, Mind and Body, Social Studies, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Medicine
Submitted By:: Adrienne Asch
Proofread By:: Kari G
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.