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"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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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2020. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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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"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xxxii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9781108485975 1108485979 9781108725408 1108725406 |
| Index Number: | K637 |
| CLC: |
D912.7 C913.69 |
| Call Number: | C913.69/D611-15 |
| Contents: |
Disability, Health, and Normal Function / Healthcare as Eugenics / Epistemic Injustice, Disability Stigma, and Public Health Law / Abortion, the Disabilities of Pregnancy, and the Dignity of Risk / Down Syndrome Information Act and "Mere Difference :" Redefining the Scope of Prenatal Testing Conversations? / Dementia, Disability, and Advance Directives : Defensible Legal Standards for Dementia Care / Expressing Respect for People with Disabilities in Medical Practice / Disabled Bodies and Good Organs / Humanizing Clinical Care for Patients with Disabilities / Chronic Pain as a Challenge for Disability Theory and Policy / Making "Meaningful Access" Meaningful : Equitable Healthcare for Divisive Times / Privacy Problem in Disability Antidiscrimination Law / Sexual Agency as a Rights-Based Imperative for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities / Destigmatizing Disability in the Law of Immigration Admissions / Normative Bases of Medical Civil Rights / Judicial Representation : Speaking for Others from the Bench / Can We Universally Accommodate Mental Health and Should We? : A Systematic Review of the Evidence and Ethical Analysis / Algorithmic Disability Discrimination / Pathways Approach to Priority Setting : Considering Quality of Life While Being Fair to Individuals with Disabilities / Measuring Health-State Utility via Cured Patients / |