Intellectual disability : ethics, dehumanization, and a new moral community

Intellectual disability : ethics, dehumanization, and a new moral community / Heather E. Keith and Kenneth D. Keith.

"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. This book: Examines the roots of disability ethics from a psychological, philosophical...

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Main Author: Keith, Heather E.
Other Authors: Keith, Kenneth D. (Kenneth Dwight), 1946-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex : J. Wiley, 2013.
Subjects:
People with mental disabilities > Cross-cultural studies.
People with mental disabilities > Social conditions.
Mental illness > Moral and ethical aspects.
Mental illness > Cross-cultural studies.
Ethnopsychology > Cross-cultural studies.
Difference (Psychology) > Cross-cultural studies.
Group identity > Cross-cultural studies.
Social isolation > Cross-cultural studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > People with Disabilities.
Difference (Psychology)
Ethnopsychology
Group identity
Mental illness
Mental illness > Moral and ethical aspects
People with mental disabilities
People with mental disabilities > Social conditions
Social isolation
Electronic books.
Cross-cultural studies
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Table of Contents:
  • Why study disability?
  • Part I. The roots of dehumanization. Intellectual disability: history and evolution of definitions
  • The social construction of Purgatory: ideas and institutions
  • A failure of intelligence
  • The consequences of reason: moral philosophy and intelligence
  • Part II. Out of the darkness. Defining the person: The moral and social consequences of philosophies of selfhood
  • Alternative views of moral engagement: relationality and rationality
  • Culture and intellectual disability
  • Part III. Disability ethics for a new age. Quality of life and perception of self
  • Application and best practices: rights, education, and ethics
  • Visions of the future.

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