Intellectual disability : ethics, dehumanization, and a new moral community / / Heather E. Keith and Kenneth D. Keith

• Autore: Keith Heather E
• Pubblicazione: Chichester, England, : Wiley-Blackwell, c2013
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (250 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.9/085
• Soggetto topico: People with mental disabilities; People with mental disabilities - Social conditions; Mental illness - Moral and ethical aspects; Mental illness
• Altri autori: KeithKenneth D <1946-> (Kenneth Dwight)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Intellectual disability
• ISBN: 1-118-58644-1; 1-118-60695-7; 1-299-31383-3; 1-118-58647-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812960303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II