Disabled people and the right to life : the protection and violation of disabled people's most basic human rights / edited by Luke Clements and Janet Read.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clements, L. J. (Luke J.)

Read, Janet, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

People with disabilities--Civil rights.

People with disabilities.

People with disabilities--Civil rights--Cross-cultural studies.

Right to life.

Human rights.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

xv, 272 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.

Summary:

Disabled People and the Right to Life looks at disabled people's right to life in its wider sense, discussing the right to a life that is not intolerable, a life worth living. This volume uses a human rights perspective to explore debates and challenges around what this means for disabled people.

Human rights has increasingly come to be seen as a significant framework both to aid understanding of the experiences of those who face oppression and to underpin social, legal and political measures to counter it. The most fundamental of human rights is the right to life - a right which is enshrined in international treaties and covenants as well as in domestic law in many countries, but which cannot be taken for granted by disabled people. With perspectives from both developed and developing countries, the book chronicles attitudes and practices, critically analyses changes and explores the extent to which such changes have been driven by social as well as legal developments. Chapters explore issues such as: cost-effectiveness analysis and preferences, disability rights and resuscitation, assisted dying versus assisted living, access to care, the selective non-treatment of disabled babies and young children.

The distinguished panel of contributors includes academics, practitioners, public officials and activists. This truly interdisciplinary book will be of interest to students and researchers of disability, law, social policy and human rights.

Contents:

Introduction : life, disability, and the pursuit of human rights / Luke Clements, Janet Read

Mending, not ending : cost-effectiveness analysis, preferences and the right to a life with disabilities / David Wasserman, Adrienne Asch, Jerome Bickenbach

Deadly currents beneath calm waters : persons with disability and the right to life in Australia / Phillip French, Rosemary Kayess

It's my life - it's my decision? : assisted dying versus assisted living / Jane Campbell

Disability rights and resuscitation : do not attempt reconciliation? / Tom Shakespeare, Bryan Vernon

Disability, human rights and re-distributive justice : some reflections from the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan on popular perceptions of disabled people / Shaheen Sardar Ali

Human rights aspects of deaths of institutionalized people with disabilities in Europe / Jan Fiala, Oliver Lewis

Demonstrably awful : the right to life and the selective non-treatment of disabled babies and young children / Janet Read, Luke Clements

End-of-life decisions in neonatology and the right to life of the disabled newborn child : impressions from the Netherlands / Jozef H.H.M. Dorscheidt

The right to life and the right to health of children with disabilities before courts : some Latin American examples / Christian Courtis

Access to care and the right to life of disabled children in Bulgaria / Boika Rechel

Unheard voices : human rights issues of disabled youngsters from Romanian institutions / Mirela Saupe

The classification of newborn children : consequences for survival / Jónína Einarsdóttir.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415407133

0415407141

0203933451

9780415407137

9780415407144

9780203933459

OCLC:

154308921