The Ethics of Ability and Enhancement

This book explores our ethical responsibilities regarding health in general and disabilities in particular. Disability studies and human enhancement stand out as two emerging areas of research in medical ethics, prompting debates into ethical questions of identity, embodiment, discrimination, and ac...

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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Jepson Studies in Leadership
Subjects:
Leadership.
Business ethics.
Health care management.
Health services administration.
ISBN:9781349953035
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Theorizing about Human Capacity: A View from the Nineteenth Century
  • 2. A More "Inclusive" Approach to Enhancement and Disability
  • 3. Disability & Doing Justice
  • 4. Disability, Well-being, and (In)Apt Emotions
  • 5. Kantian Ethics, Well-being, and Disability
  • 6. Dementia, Advance Directives, and the Problem of Temporal Selfishness
  • 7. How Old is Old? Changing Conceptions of Old Age
  • 8. Why Parents Should Enhance Their Children
  • 9. Cosmopolitan Moral Enhancement.

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