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Impairment and Disability Law and Ethics at the Beginning and End of Life
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Routledge-Cavendish
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Routledge-Cavendish
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Routledge-Cavendish
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This book explores legislation intended to protect the interests of people with disabilities or impairments. Considering a broad range of ethical and legal concerns which arise in issues of life, death and disability, it covers the social and legal responses to the equality rights of disabled people, focusing on those responses to:
the right to life
the end of life
assisted suicide.... Read more
Life, Death, Disability and Impairment in Context. Conceptualizing Disability. Towards Ethical Cohesion. Decisions at the Beginning of Life. Decisions at the End of Life. Seeking Assistance in Dying. Conclusions
Biography
Professor Sheila McLean has a worldwide reputation for her work in the study of medical ethics and law. She is the Director of the Institute of Law and Ethics in Medicine at the University of Glasgow.
Dr Laura Williamson is a Researcher at the Institute of Law and Ethics in Medicine, University of Glasgow.
