Disability Bioethics

Jackie Leach Scully is senior lecturer at the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, and a member of the Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences Research Centre, Newcastle University, UK. She has been active in the disability movement in Britain and Europe since the early 1980s.

Disability Bioethics brings together important insights from disability studies, feminist theory, and bioethics to create an integrated, original analysis into a range of ethical questions that arise in the context of medical approaches to disabilities. Scully's expertise in diverse approaches to philosophy, biology, and feminist thought ensure careful and critical engagement with multiple approaches to the complex questions that surround the place of disabilities and people who are disabled in society, in medicine, and in science. The book moves questions concerning disabilities from the margins to the center of bioethics and makes clear how important it is that we understand how deeply assumptions about disability run in many current debates. Challenging the superficial treatment of ethical issues concerning disability that is prevalent in bioethics, Scully adopts the perspective of feminist disability ethics to show how important it is to begin bioethics from the reality of disabled lives.

• Chapter 1 Chapter One: Bioethics and Embodied DifferenceChapter 2 Chapter Two: Conceptualizing DisabilityChapter 3 Chapter Three: Exploring Moral UnderstandingsChapter 4 Chapter Four: Different by Choice?Chapter 5 Chapter Five: Thinking Through the Variant BodyChapter 6 Chapter Six: Narratives of Disability: Models and MentorsChapter 7 Chapter Seven: Political Recognition and MisrecognitionChapter 8: All Clues and (some) Solutions