Intellectual disability :
Keith, Heather E.
Intellectual disability : ethics, dehumanization, and a new moral community / Heather E. Keith, Green Mountain College, and Kenneth D. Keith, University of San Diego. - Atrium, Sounthern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, a John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Publication, 2013. - xvi, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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
9780470674321 (cloth)
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.
HV 3004 / .K269 2013
Intellectual disability : ethics, dehumanization, and a new moral community / Heather E. Keith, Green Mountain College, and Kenneth D. Keith, University of San Diego. - Atrium, Sounthern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, a John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Publication, 2013. - xvi, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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
9780470674321 (cloth)
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.
HV 3004 / .K269 2013
