The faces of intellectual disability : philosophical reflections / Licia Carlson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carlson, Licia, 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intellectual disability--Philosophy.

Intellectual disability.

Intellectual disability--Social aspects.

People with mental disabilities.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In a challenge to current thinking about cognitive impairment, this book explores what it means to treat people with intellectual disabilities in an ethical manner. Reassessing philosophical views of intellectual disability, Licia Carlson shows how we can affirm the dignity and worth of intellectually disabled people first by ending comparisons to nonhuman animals and then by confronting our fears and discomforts. Carlson presents the complex history of ideas about cognitive disability, the treatment of intellectually disabled people, and social and cultural reactions to them. Sensitive and clearly argued, this book offers new insights on recent trends in disability studies and philosophy.

Contents:

The institutional world of intellectual disability

Twin brothers : the "idiot" and the institution

Gendered objects, gendered subjects

Analytic interlude

The philosophical world of intellectual disability

The face of authority

The face of the beast

The face of suffering.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-53978-7

9786612539787

0-253-00394-6

OCLC:

607553757