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Reconsidering intellectual disability : l'Arche, medical ethics, and Christian friendship /

In 2004, the parents of Ashley, a young girl with profound intellectual disabilities, chose to stop her growth, perform a hysterectomy, and remove her breast buds. This "Ashley Treatment" (AT) was performed in consultation with pediatric specialists and the hospital ethics committee, who r...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Greig, Jason Reimer (Autor)
Formato: Tesis Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2015]
Colección:Moral traditions series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Introduction; 1 A New Approach to an Old Dilemma: The Ashley Treatment and Its Respondents; 2 Exposing the Power of Medicine Through a Christian Body Politics; 3 Disability, Society, and Theology: The Benefits and Limitations of the Social Model of Disability; 4 No Longer Slaves but Friends: Social Recognition and the Power of Friendship; 5 The Church as a Community of Friends: Embodying the Strange Politics of the Kingdom; 6 Beholding the Politics of the Impossible: L'Arche as an Embodiment of the Church as a Community of Friends; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D.
  • Ef; g; h; i; j; k; l; m; n; o; p; q; r; s; t; u; v; w; y; z.