Future of the Disabled in Liberal Society, The : An Ethical Analysis /
Questions developments in human genetic research from the perspective of persons with mental disabilities and their families. Hans S. Reinders argues that when we use terms such as "disease" and "defect" to describe conditions that genetic engineering might well eliminate, we may...
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Idioma: | Inglés |
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Notre Dame, IN :
University of Notre Dame Press,
2000.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The 'liberal convention'
- Genetics and prevention in public morality
- "The condition, not the person"
- Disability, prevention, and discrimination
- Restrictions on reproductive choice?
- The inclusion of the mentally disabled
- Imperatives of the self
- Responsibility for dependent others
- The presumption of suffering
- The transformation experience
- The meaning of life in liberal society.