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The Faces of Intellectual Disability

The Faces of Intellectual Disability Philosophical Reflections

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Publisher's Synopsis

In a challenge to current thinking about cognitive impairment, this book explores what it means to treat people with intellectual disabilities in an ethical manner. Reassessing philosophical views of intellectual disability, Licia Carlson shows how we can affirm the dignity and worth of intellectually disabled people first by ending comparisons to nonhuman animals and then by confronting our fears and discomforts. Carlson presents the complex history of ideas about cognitive disability, the treatment of intellectually disabled people, and social and cultural reactions to them. Sensitive and clearly argued, this book offers new insights on recent trends in disability studies and philosophy.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780253354211
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 616.8588
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 266
Weight: 544g
Height: 241mm
Width: 160mm
Spine width: 23mm