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...
In a challenge to current thinking about cognitive impairment, this book explores what it means to treat people with intellectual disabilities in a...
Through a series of essays contributed by clinicians, medical historians, and prominent moral philosophers, Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge to Moral Philosophy addresses the ethical, bio-ethical, epistemological, historical, and meta-philosophical questions raised by cognitive disability
Features essays by a prominent clinicians and medical historians of cognitive disability, and prominent contemporary philosophers such as Ian Hacking, Martha Nussbaum, and Peter Singer
Represents the first collection that brings together philosophical discussions of Alzheimer's...
Through a series of essays contributed by clinicians, medical historians, and prominent moral philosophers, Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge ...
Teresa Renda Carlson fue diagnosticada con cancer de mama a los 29 anos, una madre joven con una hija de 17 meses de edad, en 1972-cuando los tratamientos eran devastadores, las posibilidades de supervivencia pocas y el tema, tabu. A los 35 anos Carlson habia sobrevivido a dos ataques del cancer y a una mastectomia radical doble, escribio estas memorias inspirada en un acto de catarsis y como una invitacion a romper el silencio destructivo que rodea al cancer de mama. Como Teresa observa, solo cuando reconocemos y compartimos el sufrimiento, es cuando podemos comenzar a sanar y seguir...
Teresa Renda Carlson fue diagnosticada con cancer de mama a los 29 anos, una madre joven con una hija de 17 meses de edad, en 1972-cuando los tratamie...
