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Philosophical reflections on disability /
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 the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Dordrecht ; New York :
Springer Verlag,
©2010.
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| Colección: | Philosophy and medicine ;
v. 104. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : philosophical reflections on disability / D. Christopher Ralston and Justin Ho
- An essay on modeling : the social model of disability / Anita Silvers
- Ability, competence and qualification : fundamental concepts in the philosophy of disability / Lennart Nordenfelt
- Disability and medical theory / Christopher Boorse
- Utilitarianism, disability, and society / Torbjörn Tännsjö
- Too late to matter? Preventing the birth of infants at risk for adult-onset disease or disability / Laura M. Purdy
- To fail to enhance is to disable / Muireann Quigley and John Harris
- Rehabilitating Aristotle : a virtue ethics approach to disability and human flourishing / Garret Merriam
- Equal treatment for disabled persons : the case of organ transplantation / Robert M. Veatch
- Disability rights : do we really mean it? / Ron Amundson
- Dignity, disability, difference, and rights / Daniel P. Sulmasy
- Public policy and personal aspects of disability / Patricia M. Owens and Eric J. Cassell
- Disability and social justice / Christopher Tollefson
- The unfair and the unfortunate : some brief critical reflections on secular moral claim rights for the disabled / H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.
- Neither victims nor heroes : reflections from a polio person / Jean Bethke Elshtain.