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 …

It is commonly believed that disability disqualifies people from full participation in or
recognition by society. This view is rooted in eugenic logic, which tells us that our world …

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 …

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 …

In this paper, I look at several examples that demonstrate what I see as a troubling tendency
in much of mainstream bioethics to discount the views of disabled people. Following feminist …

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 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 …

In 1985, I fell ill overnight with what turned out to be a disabling chronic disease. In the long
struggle to come to terms with it, I had to learn to live with a body that felt entirely different to …

Disability is a thorny and muddled concept–especially in the field of disability studies–and
social accounts contest with more traditional biologically based approaches in highly …