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This project draws together the diverse strands of the debate regarding disability in a way never before combined in a single volume. After providing a representative sampling of competing philosophical approaches to the conceptualization of disability as such, the volume goes on to address such themes as the complex interplay between disability and quality of life, questions of social justice as it relates to disability, and the personal dimensions of the disability experience. By explicitly locating the discussion of various applied ethical questions within the broader theoretical context of how disability is best conceptualized, the volume seeks to bridge the gap between abstract philosophical musings about the nature of disease, illness and disability found in much of the philosophy of medicine literature, on the one hand, and the comparatively concrete but less philosophical discourse frequently encountered in much of the disability studies literature. It also critically examines various claims advanced by disability advocates, as well as those of their critics. In bringing together leading scholars in the fields of moral theory, bioethics, and disability studies, this volume makes a unique contribution to the scholarly literature, while also offering a valuable resource to instructors and students interested in a text that critically examines and assesses various approaches to some of the most vexing problems in contemporary social and political philosophy.

Disability awareness. --- Disability studies. --- People with disabilities. --- Sociology of disability. --- Philosophy, Medical --- Personal Autonomy --- Ethical Theory --- Social Justice --- Quality of Life --- Disabled Persons --- Human Rights --- Principle-Based Ethics --- Freedom --- Philosophy --- Persons --- Ethics --- Life --- Psychological Phenomena and Processes --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Humanities --- Social Control, Formal --- Named Groups --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Sociology --- Health Care --- Medical Ethics & Philosophy --- Disabilities --- Medicine --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Social sciences. --- Philosophy and social sciences. --- Political philosophy. --- Medicine. --- Medical ethics. --- Sociology. --- Social Sciences. --- Sociology, general. --- Medicine/Public Health, general. --- Philosophy of the Social Sciences. --- Philosophy of Medicine. --- Theory of Medicine/Bioethics. --- Political Philosophy. --- Philosophy. --- Cripples --- Disabled --- Disabled people --- Disabled persons --- Handicapped --- Handicapped people --- Individuals with disabilities --- People with physical disabilities --- Persons with disabilities --- Physically challenged people --- Physically disabled people --- Physically handicapped --- Sociology of disability --- People with disabilities --- Education --- Study and teaching --- Curricula --- Social sciences --- Medicine-Philosophy. --- Political science --- Political philosophy --- Biomedical ethics --- Clinical ethics --- Ethics, Medical --- Health care ethics --- Medical care --- Bioethics --- Professional ethics --- Nursing ethics --- Social medicine --- Social philosophy --- Social theory --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Human biology --- Life sciences --- Medical sciences --- Pathology --- Physicians --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Health Workforce --- Medicine—Philosophy. --- Social sciences and philosophy

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This project draws together the diverse strands of the debate regarding disability in a way never before combined in a single volume. After providing a representative sampling of competing philosophical approaches to the conceptualization of disability as such, the volume goes on to address such themes as the complex interplay between disability and quality of life, questions of social justice as it relates to disability, and the personal dimensions of the disability experience. By explicitly locating the discussion of various applied ethical questions within the broader theoretical context of how disability is best conceptualized, the volume seeks to bridge the gap between abstract philosophical musings about the nature of disease, illness and disability found in much of the philosophy of medicine literature, on the one hand, and the comparatively concrete but less philosophical discourse frequently encountered in much of the disability studies literature. It also critically examines various claims advanced by disability advocates, as well as those of their critics. In bringing together leading scholars in the fields of moral theory, bioethics, and disability studies, this volume makes a unique contribution to the scholarly literature, while also offering a valuable resource to instructors and students interested in a text that critically examines and assesses various approaches to some of the most vexing problems in contemporary social and political philosophy.

Philosophy. --- Philosophy of Medicine. --- Theory of Medicine/Bioethics. --- Political Philosophy. --- Ethics. --- Quality of Life Research. --- Philosophy (General). --- Ethics. --- medicine --- Political science --- Quality of Life. --- Medical ethics. --- Quality of Life --- Morale --- Science politique --- Ethique médicale --- Philosophy. --- Philosophy. --- Research. --- Philosophie

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In only four decades, bioethics has transformed from a fledgling field into a complex, rapidly expanding, multidisciplinary field of inquiry and practice.  Its influence can be found not only in our intellectual and biomedical institutions, but also in almost every facet of our social, cultural, and political life. This volume maps the remarkable development of bioethics in American culture, uncovering the important historical factors that brought it into existence, analyzing its cultural, philosophical, and professional dimensions, and surveying its potential future trajectories.  Bringing together a collection of original essays by seminal figures in the fields of medical ethics and bioethics, it addresses such questions as the following:   - Are there precise moments, events, socio-political conditions, legal cases, and/or works of scholarship to which we can trace the emergence of bioethics as a field of inquiry in the United States?   - What is the relationship between the historico-causal factors that gave birth to bioethics and the factors that sustain and encourage its continued development today?   - Is it possible and/or useful to view the history of bioethics in discrete periods with well-defined boundaries?   - If so, are there discernible forces that reveal why transitions occurred when they did? What are the key concepts that ultimately frame the field and how have they evolved and developed over time?   - Is the field of bioethics in a period of transformation into biopolitics?   Contributors include George Annas, Howard Brody, Eric J. Cassell, H.  Tristram Engelhardt Jr., Edmund L. Erde, John Collins Harvey, Albert R. Jonsen, Loretta Kopelman, Laurence B. McCullough, Edmund D. Pellegrino, Warren T. Reich, Carson Strong, Robert M. Veatch, and Richard M. Zaner.

Philosophy --- Professional ethics. Deontology --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- History of human medicine --- Human medicine --- Economic geography --- filosofie --- geneeskunde --- culturele antropologie --- deontologie --- medische ethiek --- geografie