Faces of Intellectual Disability Philosophical Reflections

Name: Faces of Intellectual Disability Philosophical Reflections
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ISBN: 9780253221575

ISBN-10: 0253221579

ISBN-13: 9780253221575

Edition: 2009

Authors: Licia Carlson, Lisa Diedrich

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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.

Book details

List price: $23.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 12/22/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 286
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Acknowledgments


A Note on Terminology


Introduction: The Philosopher's Nightmare



The Institutional World of Intellectual Disability



Twin Brothers: The "Idiot" and the Institution



Gendered Objects, Gendered Subjects



Analytic Interlude



The Philosophical World of Intellectual Disability



The Face of Authority



The Face of the Best



The Face of Suffering


Conclusion: The Face of the Mirror


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index