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

 
9780521539715: Quality of Life Human Difference: Genetic Testing, Health Care, and Disability (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy)
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ISBN 10: 0521539714 ISBN 13: 9780521539715
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2005

Synopsis

Discusses the role of quality assessments in social policy, raised by prenatal testing for disability.

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Review

'... what is most interesting about this volume is that while addressing the central issues in the debate about disability and well-being, it sets this in a wider context of getting to grips with deeper theoretical issues ... In addition to addressing the particular topic at hand this collection makes a contribution more broadly to bioethics. The material on measuring health versus well-being, for example, has significant implications for the endeavors in population genetic databases that are currently being advocated.' Ruth Chadwick, Lancaster University

Book Description

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.

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

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