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Reconsidering Intellectual Disability: L´Arche, Medical Ethics, and Christian Friendship
Jason Reimer Greig
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Description for Reconsidering Intellectual Disability: L´Arche, Medical Ethics, and Christian Friendship
Paperback. What are the biomedical boundaries of acceptable treatment for those not able to give informed consent? Who gets to decide when a patient cannot communicate their desires and needs? This book answers these questions. Series: Moral Traditions Series. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: HRAM1; HRAM3; HRCM; PSAD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 408.
Drawing on the controversial case of Ashley X, a girl with severe developmental disabilities who received interventionist medical treatment to limit her growth and keep her body forever small-a procedure now known as the Ashley Treatment -Reconsidering Intellectual Disability explores important questions at the intersection of disability theory, Christian moral theology, and bioethics. What are the biomedical boundaries of acceptable treatment for those not able to give informed consent? Who gets to decide when a patient cannot communicate their desires and needs? Should we accept the dominance of a form of medicine that identifies those with ... Read more
Drawing on the controversial case of Ashley X, a girl with severe developmental disabilities who received interventionist medical treatment to limit her growth and keep her body forever small-a procedure now known as the Ashley Treatment -Reconsidering Intellectual Disability explores important questions at the intersection of disability theory, Christian moral theology, and bioethics. What are the biomedical boundaries of acceptable treatment for those not able to give informed consent? Who gets to decide when a patient cannot communicate their desires and needs? Should we accept the dominance of a form of medicine that identifies those with ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Georgetown University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Moral Traditions Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Washington, DC, United States
ISBN
9781626162433
SKU
V9781626162433
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About Jason Reimer Greig
Jason Reimer Greig spent eleven years with L'Arche, an international federation of Christian communities supporting people with intellectual disabilities, as a house assistant and spiritual life coordinator. He holds an MDiv from Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary and is working on his PhD in theology at VU Free University of Amsterdam.
Reviews for Reconsidering Intellectual Disability: L´Arche, Medical Ethics, and Christian Friendship
It is a call to reconsider the importance of friendship and servitude in human flourishing while shedding the medical model of intellectual disability as something that is broken. We would do well to reflect on these things as we read this book.
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