Disability, health, law, and bioethics / edited by I. Glenn Cohen, Carmel Shachar, Anita Silvers, Michael Ashley Stein.
"Historically and across societies, people with disabilities have been stigmatized and excluded from social opportunities on a variety of grounds. These justifications include assertions that people with disabilities are biologically defective, less than capable, costly to treat and employ, suf...
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| Other title: | Disability, health, law, & bioethics. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA :
Cambridge University Press,
2020.
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| Summary: | "Historically and across societies, people with disabilities have been stigmatized and excluded from social opportunities on a variety of grounds. These justifications include assertions that people with disabilities are biologically defective, less than capable, costly to treat and employ, suffering, or fundamentally inappropriate for social inclusion. Rethinking the idea of disability so as to detach being disabled from inescapable disadvantage has been considered a key to the twenty-first century reconstruction of how disablement is best understood"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xxxii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781108485975 1108485979 9781108725408 1108725406 |