Biomedical subjects
Anita Silvers
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Going to school to die: equal treatment for well and ill children.
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Justice through trust: disability and the "outlier problem" in social contract theory.
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Historical vulnerability and special scrutiny: precautions against discrimination in medical research.
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On the possibility and desirability of constructing a neutral conception of disability.
Disagreement about the proper attitude toward disability proliferates. Yet little attention has been paid to an important meta-question, namely, whether "disability" is an essentially contested concept. If so, recent debates between bioethicists and the disability movement leadership cannot be resolved. In this essay I identify some of the presumptions that make their encounters so contentious. Much more must happen, I argue, for any discussions about disability policy and politics to be productive. Progress depends on constructing a neutral conception of disability, one that neither devalues disability nor implies that persons with disabilities are inadequate. So, first, I clear away the conceptual underbrush that makes us think our idea of disability must be value-laden. Second, I sketch some constituents of, and constraints upon, a neutral notion of disability.
Human rights and genetic discrimination: protecting genomics' promise for public health.
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An equality paradigm for preventing genetic discrimination.
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Our posthuman future: Discussing the consequences of biotechnological advances.
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