Quality of Life and Human Difference - Genetic Testing, Health Care, and Disability

Klappentext Discusses the role of quality assessments in social policy, raised by prenatal testing for disability. Zusammenfassung Turns the perspectives of disability scholars on issues that have largely been the province of health methodology! policy and philosophy! while angling philosophical policy analysis on problems that have largely been the province of disability scholarship. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction David Wasserman, Jerome Bickenbach and Robert Wachbroit; 1. Assessing quality of life: clinical versus health policy uses Robert Wachbroit; 2. Predicting genetic disability while commodifying health Anita Silvers; 3. Preventing genetically transmitted disabilities while respecting persons with disabilities Dan W. Brock; 4. Disability, ideology and quality of life: a bias in biomedical ethics Ron Amundson; 5. Values for health states in QALYs and DALYs: desirability versus well-being and worth Erik Nord; 6. Preventing the existence of people with disabilities Jeff McMahan; 7. Where is the sin is synecdoche? Prenatal testing and parent-child relationship Adrienne Asch and David Wasserman; 8. The social context of individual choice Tom Shakespeare; 9. Disability and health systems assessment Jerome Bickenbach; Index.

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• Authors: &apos, s Un, David Wasserman, David (University of Maryland Wasserman, David Bickenbach Wasserman
• Assisted by: Jerome Bickenbach (Editor), Jerome (Queen's University Bickenbach (Editor), Robert Wachbroit (Editor), Robert (University of Maryland Wachbroit (Editor), David Wasserman (Editor), David (University of Maryland Wasserman (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.05.2005
• EAN: 9780521539715
• ISBN: 978-0-521-53971-5
• No. of pages: 286
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosoph; Cambridge Studies in Philosoph; Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works