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

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

Much of the American debate over physician assisted death (PAD) is framed as an
ideological split between conservatives and liberals, pro life and pro choice advocates, and …

ISSN 1740-0287 Print/1740-7915 Online/03/010145-13© 2003 Taylor & Francis Ltd DOI:
10.1080/1740028032000131486 of thought he is pursuing. Most of the issues about social …

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

Two rival paradigms permeate bioethics. One generally favors eugenics, euthanasia,
assisted suicide and other methods for those with severely restricting physical and cognitive …

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 …

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 …

CONCLUSION We have argued that in the case of disability, the liability side of the “paradox
of experience” is overstated. First, the biases arising from a vested interest in the outcome of …

“Death with dignity” has become the rallying cry of the assisted suicide and voluntary
euthanasia movement. Its proponents assert that there is a right to prevent our dignity from …