What has come to be called critical disability studies is an emergent field of academic
research, teaching, theory building, public scholarship, and something I'll call “educational …

In 1989, Canadian philosopher Susan Wendell characterized the way bioethics literature
discusses disability as follows:" Under what conditions is it morally permissible/right to kill/let …

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

Contemporary bioethics has been somewhat skewed by its focus on high-tech medicine and
the resulting development of ethical frameworks based on an acute-care model of …

The authors of “Ashley Revisited: A Response to the Critics,” Diekema and Fost (2010)
attempt to address so many arguments that they are simply unable to fully grapple with some …

Over the last forty years, the field of disability studies has emerged from the political activism
of disabled people. In this challenging review of the field, leading disability academic and …

This article examines the ethical issues surrounding the inclusion of people with intellectual
disabilities as research subjects. It explores subject selection, competence, risk and benefits …

Bioethics theories are supposed to develop ethical principles, which allow for the
governance of science, technology, and biomedical research. This article presents evidence …

Disability studies, like other emergent disciplines (gender, critical race, and queer theory, for
example), is midwived by scholars who find that mainstream work has omitted or …