Author: Susantha GoonatilakePublisher: New Delhi : Vikas
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Crippled Minds
Author: Susantha GoonatilakePublisher: New Delhi : Vikas
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Learning from My Daughter
Author: Eva Feder KittayPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190844612
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Does life have meaning? What is flourishing? How do we attain the good life? Philosophers, and many others of us, have explored these questions for centuries. As Eva Feder Kittay points out, however, there is a flaw in the essential premise of these questions: they seem oblivious to the very nature of the ways in which humans live, omitting a world of co-dependency, and of the fact that we live in and through our bodies, whether they are fully abled or disabled. Our dependent, vulnerable, messy, changeable, and embodied experience colors everything about our lives both on the surface and when it comes to deeper concepts, but we tend to leave aside the body for the mind when it comes to philosophical matters. Disability offers a powerful challenge to long-held philosophical views about the nature of the good life, what provides meaning in our lives, and the centrality of reason, as well as questions of justice, dignity, and personhood. These concepts need not be distant and idealized; the answers are right before us, in the way humans interact with one another, care for one another, and need one another--whether they possess full mental capacities or have cognitive limitations. We need to revise our concepts of things like dignity and personhood in light of this important correction, Kittay argues. This is the first of two books in which Kittay will grapple with just how we need to revisit core philosophical ideas in light of disabled people's experience and way of being in the world. Kittay, an award-winning philosopher who is also the mother to a multiply-disabled daughter, interweaves the personal voice with the philosophical as a critical method of philosophical investigation. Here, she addresses why cognitive disability can reorient us to what truly matters, and questions the centrality of normalcy as part of a good life. With profound sensitivity and insight, Kittay examines other difficult topics: How can we look at the ethical questions regarding prenatal testing in light of a new appreciation of the personhood of disabled people? What do new possibilities in genetic testing imply for understanding disability, the family, and bioethics? How can we reconsider the importance of care, and how does it work best? In the process of pursuing these questions, Kittay articulates an ethic of care, which is the ethical theory most useful for claiming full rights for disabled people and providing the opportunities for everyone to live joyful and fulfilling lives. She applies the lessons of care to the controversial alteration of severely cognitively disabled children known as the Ashley Treatment, whereby a child's growth is halted with extensive estrogen treatment and related bodily interventions are justified. This book both imparts lessons that advocate on behalf of those with significant disabilities, and constructs a moral theory grounded on our ability to give, receive, and share care and love. Above all, it aims to adjust social attitudes and misconceptions about life with disability.
The Dawn of Mind
Author: Margaret DrummondPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child development
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The National School Digest
Author: The Exceptional child
Author: Maximilian Paul Eugen GroszmannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
Out of My Mind
Author: Sharon M. DraperPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416971718
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.
Thirty Years Among the Dead
Author: Carl August WicklandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Those They Called Idiots
Author: Simon JarrettPublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789143020
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Those They Called Idiots traces the little-known lives of people with learning disabilities from the communities of eighteenth-century England to the nineteenth-century asylum, to care in today’s society. Using evidence from civil and criminal courtrooms, joke books, slang dictionaries, novels, art, and caricature, it explores the explosive intermingling of ideas about intelligence and race, while bringing into sharp focus the lives of people often seen as the most marginalized in society.
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