The Faces of Intellectual Disability: Philosophical Reflections

Carlson

ISBN 10: 0253221579 / ISBN 13: 9780253221575

Published by Indiana Univ Pr, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Faces of Intellectual Disability: Philosophical Reflections
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0253221579
• ISBN 13: 9780253221575
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
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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.

About the Author

Licia Carlson has written numerous articles on philosophy and disability and is the co-editor of Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge to Moral Philosophy. She is an assistant professor of philosophy at Providence College.