Intellectual Disability: Ethics, Dehumanization, and a New Moral Community

By Kenneth D. Keith and Heather Keith

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

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470674326
• ISBN13: 9780470674321
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"