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 …

The Disability Bioethics Reader is the first introduction to the field of bioethics presented
through the lens of critical disability studies and the philosophy of disability. Introductory and …

The question “what is disability” and its implications are addressed in a new book Arguing
about disability: philosophical perspectives, which aims to fill the gap between disability …

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 …

This article attempts to clarify the concept of disability by explaining the ways in which it has
been applied, and defined, by both philosophers and disability scholars. Conceptual …

While it may be surprising to some, there is a history of persistent, sometimes heated conflict
between the profession of bioethics and the disability movement. Namely, the disability …

Jackie Leach Scully argues that bioethics cannot avoid the task of considering the moral
meaning of disability in humans-beyond simply regulating reproductive choices or new …

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 …

Despite antidiscrimination laws, disability discrimination remains ongoing. A recent field
experiment in the USA indicates that employers are significantly more reluctant to interview …

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 …