The Ethics of Ability and Enhancement

ISBN-13: 9781349953028 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 203 str.

Jessica Flanigan; Terry L. Price

Opis

This book explores our ethical responsibilities regarding health in general and disabilities in particular. Disability studies and human enhancement stand out as two emerging areas of research in medical ethics, prompting debates into ethical questions of identity, embodiment, discrimination, and accommodation, as well as questions concerning distributive justice and limitations on people's medical rights. Edited by two ethicist philosophers, this book combines their mastery of the theoretical debates surrounding disability and human enhancement with attention to real world questions that health workers and patients may face. By including a wide range of high-quality voices and perspectives, the book provides an invaluable resource for scholars who are working on this important and emerging area of leadership and health care ethics.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I Ability in Perspective

ONE Theorizing about Human Capacity: A View from the Nineteenth Century

TWO A More “Inclusive” Approach to Enhancement and Disability

Part II Disability

THREE Disability & Doing Justice

FOUR Disability, Well-being, and (In)Apt Emotions

FIVE Kantian Ethics, Well-being, and Disability

Part III Aging

SIX Dementia, Advance Directives, and the Problem of Temporal Selfishness

SEVEN How Old is Old? Changing Conceptions of Old Age

Part IV Enhancement

EIGHT Why Parents Should Enhance Their Children

NINE Cosmopolitan Moral Enhancement

O autorze

Jessica Flanigan is Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies and Philosophy, Politics, Economics and Law in the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond, USA. 

Terry L. Price is Professor of Leadership Studies and Philosophy, Politics, Economics and Law in the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond, USA.