Disability bioethics : moral bodies, moral difference / Jackie Leach Scully.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scully, Jackie Leach.

Series:

Feminist constructions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disabilities--Moral and ethical aspects.

Disabilities--Social aspects.

Medical ethics.

Bioethics.

Disabled Persons.

Bioethical Issues.

Eugenics.

Feminism.

Moral Obligations.

Reproduction--ethics.

Disabilities.

Social aspects.

Medical Subjects:

Disabled Persons.

Bioethical Issues.

Eugenics.

Feminism.

Moral Obligations.

Reproduction--ethics.

Physical Description:

viii, 203 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2008]

Summary:

Jackie Leach Scully argues that bioethics cannot avoid the task of considering the moral meaning of disability in humans-beyond simply regulating reproductive choices or new areas of biomedical research. By focusing on the experiential and empirical reality of impairment and drawing on recent work in disability studies, Scully brings new attention to complex ethical questions surrounding disability. Impairment is variously considered as a set of social relations and practices, as experienced embodiment, as an emancipatory movement, and as a biomedical phenomenon. In this way, disability is joined to the general late-twentieth-century trend of attending to difference as a significant and central axis of subjectivity and social life.

Contents:

Bioethics and embodied difference

Conceptualizing disability

Exploring moral understandings

Different by choice?

Thinking through the variant body

Narratives of disability: models and mentors

Political recognition and misrecognition

All clues and (some) solutions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-195) and index.

ISBN:

9780742551220

0742551229

OCLC:

214065664