Disability Bioethics - Moral Bodies, Moral Difference

Informationen zum Autor Jackie Leach Scully is senior lecturer at the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, and a member of the Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences Research Centre, Newcastle University, UK. She has been active in the disability movement in Britain and Europe since the early 1980s. Klappentext This book reconceives disability as a set of social relations and practices, as experienced embodiment, and as an emancipatory movement, as well as a biomedical phenomenon. The author brings new attention to complex ethical questions surrounding disability, looking at not only the biomedical understanding of impairment, but also its cultural representations and social organization. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Chapter One: Bioethics and Embodied Difference Chapter 2 Chapter Two: Conceptualizing Disability Chapter 3 Chapter Three: Exploring Moral Understandings Chapter 4 Chapter Four: Different by Choice? Chapter 5 Chapter Five: Thinking Through the Variant Body Chapter 6 Chapter Six: Narratives of Disability: Models and Mentors Chapter 7 Chapter Seven: Political Recognition and Misrecognition Chapter 8: All Clues and (some) Solutions

Product details

• Authors: Jackie Leach Scully
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.08.2008
• EAN: 9780742551220
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-5122-0
• No. of pages: 212
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Feminist Constructions; Feminist Constructions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works