Cognitive Disability Its Challenge

by Kittay, Eva Feder
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ISBN: 9781405198288
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Through a series of essays contributed by clinicians, medical historians, and prominent moral philosophers, Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge to Moral Philosophy addresses the ethical, bio-ethical, epistemological, historical, and meta-philosophical questions raised by cognitive disability
  • Features essays by a prominent clinicians and medical historians of cognitive disability, and prominent contemporary philosophers such as Ian Hacking, Martha Nussbaum, and Peter Singer
  • Represents the first collection that brings together philosophical discussions of Alzheimer's disease, intellectual/developmental disabilities, and autism under the rubric of cognitive disability
  • Offers insights into categories like Alzheimer's, mental retardation, and autism, as well as issues such as care, personhood, justice, agency, and responsibility
  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Kittay, Eva Feder
  • ISBN: 9781405198288
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.90 x 0.60
  • Number Of Pages: 442
  • Publication Year: 2010
Language: English

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