Disabled people and the right to life : the protection and violation of disabled people's most basic human rights
This book explores 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, emphasising the social, cultural and historical forces which have promoted disabled people's right to life or legitimated its violation
Cross-cultural studies
xv, 272 pages ; 24 cm
9780415407137, 9780415407144, 9780203933459, 0415407133, 0415407141, 0203933451
154308921
Introduction : life, disability, and the pursuit of human rights / Luke Clements, Janet Read
Mending, not ending : cost-effectiveness analysis, preferences and the right to a life with disabilities / David Wasserman, Adrienne Asch, Jerome Bickenbach
Deadly currents beneath calm waters : persons with disability and the right to life in Australia / Phillip French, Rosemary Kayess
It's my life
it's my decision? : assisted dying versus assisted living / Jane Campbell
Disability rights and resuscitation : do not attempt reconciliation? / Tom Shakespeare, Bryan Vernon
Disability, human rights and re-distributive justice : some reflections from the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan on popular perceptions of disabled people / Shaheen Sardar Ali
Human rights aspects of deaths of institutionalized people with disabilities in Europe / Jan Fiala, Oliver Lewis
Demonstrably awful : the right to life and the selective non-treatment of disabled babies and young children / Janet Read, Luke Clements
End-of-life decisions in neonatology and the right to life of the disabled newborn child : impressions from the Netherlands / Jozef H.H.M. Dorscheidt
The right to life and the right to health of children with disabilities before courts : some Latin American examples / Christian Courtis
Access to care and the right to life of disabled children in Bulgaria / Boika Rechel
Unheard voices : human rights issues of disabled youngsters from Romanian institutions / Mirela Saupe
The classification of newborn children : consequences for survival / Jónína Einarsdóttir