Jackie Leach Scully

Disability Bioethics

Moral Bodies, Moral Difference

Buch

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, and as an emancipatory movement, as well as a biomedical phenomenon. In this way, disability is joined to the general late-twentieth centu… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-7425-5122-0
EAN: 9780742551220
Produktnummer: 3691048
Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Seitenangabe: 212 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.7 cm 485 g
Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 485

Über den Autor

Jackie Leach Scully is senior lecturer at the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, and a member of the Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences Research Centre, Newcastle University, UK. She has been active in the disability movement in Britain and Europe since the early 1980s.