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 …

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 …

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

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

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 …

My presentation is not centred on a moral or ethical position on the right to live or die. I
believe there are compelling arguments for and against this so called right for physician …

I do not hold a moral, religious or ethical position on the right to live or die. Like many other
disabled people who live close to death, my perspective is purely practical. In this chapter, I …

Disability is a consistent topic of concern within philosophical ethics (including medical and
applied ethics, and bioethics). In many cases, however, it is viewed as a misfortune, and an …

My dissertation seeks to defend the “mere difference” view of disability from the charge that it
leads to objectionable implications in healthcare justice. The mere difference view, briefly …

“The claim that people with severe disabilities can live highly satisfying and accomplished
lives was once seen as a reductio ad absurdum of a theory of wellbeing.... Now it is often …