In the polarized debates about abortion and voluntary euthanasia, disability advocates, who
normally align with left-wing social forces, have tended to side with conservative and …

Major considerations of disability studies—such as provision of care, accommodation for
disabled people, and issues surrounding institutionalization—have been consistently …

Conflicts between bioethicists and disability theorists often arise over the permissibility of
euthanasia and physician assisted suicide. Where mainstream bioethicists propose …

There is a familiar presumption that disability abrogates liberty so as to render disabled
individuals unfit to decide when to die. People with disabilities, it is said, should not be …

The deeply entrenched, sometimes heated conflict between the disability movement and the
profession of bioethics is well known and well documented. Critiques of prenatal diagnosis …

If one were attempting to find a home for disability discourse within philosophy, the most
obvious place to look would be bioethics. Discussions of disability are included in many of …

Shelley Tremain teaches in the Philosophy Department at the University of Toronto,
Mississauga. She is the editor of Foucault and the Government of Disability (2005) and the …

Disability plays an important role in applied ethics, particularly in Medical Ethics and
Bioethics. However, the perspectives of disabled people differ radically in several important …

Paulo Freire describes a" culture of silence" amongst the oppressed and dispossessed
which perpetuates their oppression (Freire, 1993). Their oppression, he argues, saps them …

Control over life and death constitutes both a transcendent human dream and an ongoing,
ever-growing human capacity behind the most nightmarish of human experiences. The more …