Intellectual Disability: Ethics, Dehumanization, and a New Moral Community - Couverture rigide

Keith, Heather; Keith, Kenneth D.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0470674326 ISBN 13 : 9780470674321

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013

Synopsis

Intellectual Disability: Ethics, Dehumanization, and a New Moral Community presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the roots and evolution of the dehumanization of people with intellectual disabilities.

• Examines the roots of disability ethics from a psychological, philosophical, and educational perspective
• Presents a coherent, sustained moral perspective in examining the historical dehumanization of people with diminished cognitive abilities
• Includes a series of narratives and case descriptions to illustrate arguments
• Reveals the importance of an interdisciplinary understanding of the social construction of intellectual disability

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Heather E. Keith is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Green Mountain College, Vermont. Her work has appeared in such publications as The Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, The Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Streams of William James, and the Encyclopedia of American Philosophy.

Kenneth D. Keith is Professor Emeritus of Psychological Sciences at the University of San Diego. The author, co-author, or editor of more than 100 scientific and professional publications including The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Keith is also a Fellow of the American Psychological Association in the divisions on teaching and on international psychology, and a Fellow of the Western Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wiley-Blackwell
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0470674326
• ISBN 13: 9780470674321
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 248
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible