Intellectual Disability

Ethics, Dehumanization, and a New Moral Community

von Kenneth D Keith, Heather Keith

248 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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