Disabled People and the Right to Life: The Protection and Violation of Disabled People’s Most Basic Human RightsLuke Clements, Janet Read The most basic of human rights, the right to life, is the focus of this book. 'Human rights' has increasingly come to be seen as a significant framework, both to aid understanding of the experiences of those who face oppression, and to underpin social, legal and political measures to counter it. Disabled People and the Right to Life uses this framework to explore how disabled people’s right to life is understood in different national contexts and the ways in which they are – or are not – afforded protection under the law, emphasizing the social, cultural and historical forces and circumstances which have promoted disabled people’s right to life or legitimated its violation. Written by an international panel of contributors including individuals holding public office, academics from the fields of law, social policy, disability studies and bioethics as well as practitioners and activists attempting to further disabled people’s human rights, this truly interdisciplinary book will be of interest to students and researchers of disability, law, social policy and human rights. |
Contents
costeffectiveness analysis preferences and | |
persons with disability and | |
assisted dying versus assisted living 85 | |
do not attempt reconciliation? 99 | |
some reflections | |
Human rights aspects of deaths of institutionalized people with | |
the right to life and the selective nontreatment | |
Endoflife decisions in neonatology and the right to life of the disabled | |
The right to life and the right to health of children with disabilities | |
Access to care and the right to life of disabled children in Bulgaria 208 | |
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