The Faces of Intellectual Disability: Philosophical Reflections - Softcover

Carlson, Licia

 
9780253221575: The Faces of Intellectual Disability: Philosophical Reflections
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0253221579 ISBN 13: 9780253221575
Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2009

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.

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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.

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Publisher
Indiana University Press
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0253221579
ISBN 13 
9780253221575
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
286

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