Disability rights advocates condemn certain actual and contemplated" life or death" practices
in our society on the grounds that they wrongly discriminate against disabled people. Among …

This collection of original essays, from both established scholars and newcomers, takes up a
recent debate in philosophy, sociology, and disability studies on whether disability is …

This article explores at least two dominant critiques of assisted dying from a disability rights
perspective. In spite of these critiques, I conclude that assisted dying ought to be …

To conserve or not to conserve? Paraphrasing Hamlet, we acknowledge that ethical debates
on the status of disabled or nonnormative bodies in the histories of medicine, philosophy …

In this article, I offer an account of how the individualized and medicalized conception of
disability that prevails in philosophy is naturalized in bioethics, cognitive science, feminist …

Blumenthal-Barby et al.(2022) list several areas of philosophy that may contribute to
bioethics. Missing from their list and explicit discussion is the philosophy of disability …

This chapter takes a critical look at the practice of physician-assisted death. While
bioethicists have assumed that physician-assisted death is positive, Baril notes that the …

Bioethics and Disability provides tools for understanding the concerns, fears and biases that
have convinced some people with disabilities that the health care setting is a dangerous …

The strategy of developing an ontology or models of disability as a prior step to settling
ethical issues regarding disabilities is highly problematic for two reasons. First, key …

Some disability rights advocates criticise prenatal testing and selective abortion on the
grounds that these practices express negative attitudes towards existing persons with …