The Faces of Intellectual Disability : Philosophical Reflections /
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 intellectual...
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| Language: | English |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
©2010.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=315651 |
Table of Contents:
- 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 beast
- The face of suffering.