Disabled people and the right to life : the protection and violation of disabled people's most basic human rights /
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 2008. |
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| Description: | xv, 272 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6687778 |
Table of Contents:
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1. Introduction: life, disability and the pursuit of human rights
- 2. Mending, not ending: cost-effectiveness analysis, preferences and the right to a life with disabilities
- 3. Deadly currents beneath calm waters: persons with disability and the right to life in Australia
- 4. It's my life - it's my decision?: assisted dying versus assisted living
- 5. Disability rights and resuscitation: do not attempt reconciliation?
- 6. Disability, human rights and redistributive justice: some reflections from the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan on popular perceptions of disabled people
- 7. Human rights aspects of deaths of institutionalized people with disabilities in Europe
- 8. Demonstrably awful: the right to life and the selective non-treatment of disabled babies and young children
- 9. End-of-life decisions in neonatology and the right to life of the disabled newborn child: impressions from the Netherlands
- 10. The right to life and the right to health of children with disabilities before courts: some Latin American examples
- 11. Access to care and the right to life of disabled children in Bulgaria
- 12. Unheard voices: human rights issues of disabled youngsters from Romanian institutions
- 13. The classification of newborn children: consequences for survival
- Index