Philosophical and Ethical Problems in Mental Handicap

by Byrne and Peter Byrne

Book Overview

This book examines a range of important conceptual, ethical, social and religious issues arising from mental handicap. It contains a vigorous defence of the contention that mentally handicapped human beings are persons. It attacks both the contemporary philosophical attempts to dismiss the personhood of mentally handicapped people and the genocidal policies which those attempts suggest. It explores the logic of the attitudes which have lead to the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312234600
• ISBN13: 9780312234607
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 175 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"