Keith, Heather
Intellectual Disability: Ethics, Dehumanization and a New Moral Community
Intellectual Disability: Ethics, Dehumanization, and a New Moral Community presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the roots and evolution of the dehumanization of people with intellectual disabilities.
- Examines the roots of disability ethics from a psychological, philosophical, and educational perspective
- Presents a coherent, sustained moral perspective in examining the historical dehumanization of people with diminished cognitive abilities
- Includes a series of narratives and case descriptions to illustrate arguments
- Reveals the importance of an interdisciplinary understanding of the social construction of intellectual disability
Keywords: Learning Disability (ghost code - use ED72), Intellectual disability, discrimination, ethics, diminished cognitive ability
- Author(s)
- Keith, Heather
- Keith, Kenneth D.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2013
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 248 pages
- Category
- Upbringing, Education
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9781118586440
- Printed ISBN
- 9780470674321