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Autore |
Keith Heather E |
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Titolo |
Intellectual disability [[electronic resource] ] : ethics, dehumanization, and a new moral community / / Heather E. Keith and Kenneth D. Keith |
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Chichester, England, : Wiley-Blackwell, c2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-118-58644-1 |
1-118-60695-7 |
1-299-31383-3 |
1-118-58647-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (250 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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KeithKenneth D <1946-> (Kenneth Dwight) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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People with mental disabilities |
People with mental disabilities - Social conditions |
Mental illness - Moral and ethical aspects |
Mental illness |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Intellectual Disability; Contents; Acknowledgements; Prologue Why Study Disability?; Part I The Roots of Dehumanization; 1 Intellectual Disability : History and Evolution of Definitions; Thinking in Categories; Perceiving People in Context; Why People Act as They Do; Labeling Individuals with Disability; Effects of Labels; Effects on Individuals with Intellectual Disability; Effects on others; Social Construction of Intellectual Disability; Summary; 2 The Social Construction of Purgatory : Ideas and Institutions; In the Beginning; The Growth of Institutions |
The Social Menace of Intellectual DisabilityDehumanization; Individual cases; Holocaust; Freaks on display; Nameless in death; Reflecting on Purgatory: The Danger of Certainty; 3 A Failure of Intelligence; Individual Differences; Intelligence Testing: The Measurement of Mind; The Mismeasure of Men, Women, and Children; Intelligence Testing on a Mass Scale; Intelligence and Human Nature; Intelligence in Perspective; 4 The Consequences of Reason : Moral Philosophy and Intelligence; Philosophy and Intellectual Disability; Rational Value and |
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the Birth of Philosophy |
Reason and Ethics in the Modern EraCurrent Movements in Ethics: Utilitarian Trends and Marginal Cases; Part II Out of the Darkness; 5 Defining the Person : The Moral and Social Consequences of Philosophies of Selfhood; The Self in Isolation; Philosophies of Relationality: The Social Self; The Self as Culturally Construed; 6 Alternative Views of Moral Engagement : Relationality and Rationality; American Pragmatism and the Social Nature of Moral Life; Moral Engagement Based on Habit and Character; Moral Engagement Based on Emotion; Moral Engagement Based on Care |
Moral Engagement Based on Intelligent GrowthMoral Engagement Based on Capabilities; Caring Capabilities and Disability; 7 Culture and Intellectual Disability; Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Disability; Intellectual Disability, Language, and Contemporary Culture; Cross-Cultural Perspectives; Comparative Philosophy and Intellectual Disability; Disability and Academic Culture; Part III Disability Ethics for a New Age; 8 Quality of Life and Perception of Self; Defining Quality of Life; A Multidimensional Construct; Measuring Quality of Life; Multidimensional scales; Ethnographic study |
Discrepancy analysisDirect behavioral measures; Results of Quality of Life Measurement; Quality of life of people with and without disabilities; People with intellectual disability; Speaking for Oneself: Proxies, Self-Advocacy, and Quality of Life; Quality of Life in Perspective; 9 Application and Best Practices : Rights, Education, and Ethics; Justice for All; Education; Employment; International rights initiatives; Rights challenges; Engaging Moral Community; Selective abortion and moral status; Genetic testing and social ethics; Surrogacy and bioethics; Surrogacy and care |
Technology and ethics: Present and future challenges |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Intellectual Disability: Ethics, Dehumanization, and a New Moral Community presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the roots and evolution of the dehumanization of people with intellectual disabilities. Examines the roots of disability ethics from a psychological, philosophical, and educational perspectivePresents a coherent, sustained moral perspective in examining the historical dehumanization of people with diminished cognitive abilitiesIncludes a series of narratives and case descriptions to illustrate argumentsReveals the importa |
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