Bioethics and Disability - Toward a Disability-Conscious Bioethics

This book provides the tools for understanding the concerns, fears and biases people with disabilities and bioethicists have.

List of contents

1. The struggle: disability rights versus bioethics; 2. Clashing perspectives and a call for reconciliation; 3. Infancy; 4. Childhood; 5. The reproductive years; 6. Adulthood; 7. The end of life; 8. Toward a disability-conscious bioethics.

About the author

Alicia Ouellette is a Professor of Law at Albany Law School and a Professor of Bioethics in the Union Graduate College/Mount Sinai School of Medicine Bioethics Program. Her recent publications include 'Shaping Parental Authority over Children's Bodies' and 'Growth Attenuation, Parental Choice, and the Rights of Disabled Children'. She is also a co-editor (with Laurence McCullough and Robert Baker) of The Cambridge Dictionary of Bioethics (2010). Before joining the law faculty, she served as an Assistant Solicitor General for the State of New York. As ASG, she briefed and argued more than 100 appeals on issues ranging from termination of treatment for the terminally ill to the responsibility of gun manufacturers for injuries caused by handguns. She continues her advocacy work in select cases and was lead counsel on the law professors' brief submitted in support of same-sex couples who sought the right to marry in New York State.

Summary

This book provides the tools for understanding the concerns, fears and biases people with disabilities and bioethicists have that the health care setting is a dangerous place and that disability activists have nothing to offer bioethics.

Product details

• Authors: Alicia Ouellette, Alicia (Dr) Ouellette, Ouellette Alicia
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.07.2013
• EAN: 9781107610651
• ISBN: 978-1-107-61065-1
• No. of pages: 386
• Series: Cambridge Disability Law and P; Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; Law, LAW / Medical Law & Legislation, Bioethics, Disability: social aspects, Bio-ethics, Medical & healthcare law, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical and healthcare law, Legal Ethics & Professional Conduct