The Faces of Intellectual Disability : Philosophical Reflections /
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 intellectual...
| Основен автор: | Carlson, Licia, 1970- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
℗♭2010.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=315651 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Faces of intellectual disability. |
| Резюме: |
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 i. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xiii, 266 pages) |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780253003942 0253003946 9780253354211 0253354218 9780253221575 0253221579 1282539787 9781282539785 |