Jackie Leach Scully

Disability Bioethics (eBook, ePUB)

Moral Bodies, Moral Difference

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 century trend of attending to difference as a significant and central axis of subjectivity and social life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780742577091
• Artikelnr.: 74900076

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Chapter One: Bioethics and Embodied Difference
Chapter 2 Chapter Two: Conceptualizing Disability
Chapter 3 Chapter Three: Exploring Moral Understandings
Chapter 4 Chapter Four: Different by Choice?
Chapter 5 Chapter Five: Thinking Through the Variant Body
Chapter 6 Chapter Six: Narratives of Disability: Models and Mentors
Chapter 7 Chapter Seven: Political Recognition and Misrecognition
Chapter 8: All Clues and (some) Solutions