Moral Issues in Mental Retardation

First published in 1985. Key topics addressed include: respect for retarded people; the notion of equal rights; terminating the lives of severely handicapped infants; and genetic engineering.

List of contents

Acknowledgments; Preface; Contributors; Introduction: The Philosophy of Special Education Ronald S. Laura and Adrian F. Ashman; 1. Equal Human Rights and Employment for Mentally Retarded Persons Michael D. Bayles 2. Ambivalence of Attitude to the Mentally Retarded R. S. Downie 3. The Ethics of De-institutionalisation and Afterwards Susan C. Hayes 4. Mental Retardation and Paternalist Control R. F. Khan 5. Psychosurgery and the Mentally Retarded John Kleinig 6. Can We Avoid Assigning Greater Value to Some Human Lives Than to Others? Peter Singer 7. Infanticide Bonnie Steinbock 8. Long Days of Journeys into Night: The Tragedy of the Handicapped at Risk Infant George P. Smith III 9. Genetics and Mental Retardation Jacquelyn and K. Kegley 10. Mental Retardation and Genetic Engineering Ronald S. Laura 11. Rights, Interests, and Mental Handicap Ronald S. Laura and Adrian F. Ashman

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Ronald S. Laura, Adrian F. Ashman

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First published in 1985. Key topics addressed include: respect for retarded people; the notion of equal rights; terminating the lives of severely handicapped infants; and genetic engineering.

Product details

• Authors: Ronald S. Ashman Laura
• Assisted by: Adrian F Ashman (Editor), Adrian F. Ashman (Editor), Ashman Adrian F. (Editor), Ronald S Laura (Editor), Ronald S. Laura (Editor), Laura Ronald S. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781138602649
• ISBN: 978-1-138-60264-9
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Special Educational Needs; Routledge Library Editions: Special Educational Needs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Philosophy & theory of education, Philosophy and theory of education, Teaching of students with learning difficulties or disorders