Quality of Life Human Difference (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521539714 ISBN 13: 9780521539715

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2005

Synopsis

The role of quality assessments in social policy, especially health policy, and ethical and social issues raised by prenatal testing for disability are discussed in this analysis. A theme of the literature has been the role played by controversial assumptions about the quality of life of people with disabilities. This book turns the perspectives of disability scholars to issues that have largely been the province of health methodology, policy and philosophy, while re-directing philosophical policy analysis to problems that have largely been the province of disability scholarship.

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Book Description

The concern for the role of quality assessments in social policy, especially health policy and ethical and social issues raised by prenatal testing for disability are here discussed. A theme of this literature has been the role played by controversial assumptions about the quality of life of people with disabilities.This book turns the perspectives of disability scholars on issues that have largely been the province of health methodology, policy and philosophy, while angling philosophical policy analysis on problems that have largely been the province of disability scholarship.

Review

"The nine essays bring together ethical concerns relating to the prenatal testing of fetuses for disease and/or disability, and quantitative assessments of quality of life used to measure the cost-effectiveness of efficiency of health care interventions....Highly recommended." -CHOICE, H.J. John, emerita, Trinity College

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521539714
• ISBN 13: 9780521539715
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 286
• Editor: Wasserman David