Intellectual disability : ethics, dehumanization, and a new moral community / Heather E. Keith, Green Mountain College, and Kenneth D. Keith, University of San Diego.
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TextPublisher: Atrium, Sounthern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, a John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Publication, 2013Description: xvi, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 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
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DLSU-D GRADUATE STUDIES Graduate Studies | Graduate Studies | HV 3004 .K269 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 3AEA2015005599 |
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
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