Quality of Life and Human Difference: Genetic Testing, Health Care, and Disability (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy)

ISBN 10: 0521832012 / ISBN 13: 9780521832014

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2005

About this Item

Discusses the role of quality assessments in social policy, raised by prenatal testing for disability. Editor(s): Wasserman, David; Bickenbach, Jerome (Queen's University, Ontario); Wachbroit, Robert. Series Editor(s): MacLean, Douglas. Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy & Public Policy. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: MJTF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 500. . 2005. 1. ED. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Quality of Life and Human Difference: Genetic Testing, Health Care, and Disability (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521832012
• ISBN 13: 9780521832014
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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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.

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.