Cognitive disability and its challenge to moral philosophy
Cognitive disability and its challenge to moral philosophy
edited by Eva Feder Kittay and Licia Carlson
- Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell, ©2010
- xiii, 426 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part 1: Intellectual disability : the medical model and beyond Part 2: Justice Part 3: Care Part 4: Agency Part 5: Speaking about cognitive disability Part 6: Personhood
Through a series of essays contributed by clinicians, medical historians, and prominent moral philosophers, Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge to Moral Philosophy addresses the ethical, bio-ethical, epistemological, historical, and meta-philosophical questions raised by cognitive disability: Features essays by a prominent clinicians and medical historians of cognitive disability, and prominent contemporary philosophers such as Ian Hacking, Martha Nussbaum, and Peter Singer; Represents the first collection that brings together philosophical discussions of Alzheimer's disease, intellectual
9781405198288
Health & Fitness -- Diseases -- Nervous System
Medical -- Neurology
Cognition disorders
616.8 / KIT-C
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part 1: Intellectual disability : the medical model and beyond Part 2: Justice Part 3: Care Part 4: Agency Part 5: Speaking about cognitive disability Part 6: Personhood
Through a series of essays contributed by clinicians, medical historians, and prominent moral philosophers, Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge to Moral Philosophy addresses the ethical, bio-ethical, epistemological, historical, and meta-philosophical questions raised by cognitive disability: Features essays by a prominent clinicians and medical historians of cognitive disability, and prominent contemporary philosophers such as Ian Hacking, Martha Nussbaum, and Peter Singer; Represents the first collection that brings together philosophical discussions of Alzheimer's disease, intellectual
9781405198288
Health & Fitness -- Diseases -- Nervous System
Medical -- Neurology
Cognition disorders
616.8 / KIT-C