This fully revised and expanded second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Disability
Studies takes a multidisciplinary approach to disability and provides an authoritative and up …

Who, or what, is a'person'according to the law? How did this understanding of personhood
come about? In the twenty-first century, environmentalism, animal rights, artificial …

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the locus of care shifted from large institutions into the community. However, this shift was …

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Within law and legal scholarship there are different models of legal personality and legal
capacity. The most well known of these emphasises individual rationality, and is distilled into …

This paper examines the regulation of 'personhood'through the granting or denying of legal
capacity. It explores the development of the concept of personhood through the lens of moral …

Early defenders of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights invoked species hierarchy:
human beings are owed rights because of our discontinuity with and superiority to animals …

According to what we propose to call “the competence model,” competence is a necessary
condition for valid informed consent. If a person is not competent to make a treatment …

Are we humans destined to become 'posthuman'? In this paper, we question the claims of
posthumanism, accepting some of its broader insights whilst proposing a more empirically …

Since 2013, an organization called the Nonhuman Rights Project has brought before the
New York State courts an unusual request—asking for habeas corpus hearings to determine …