The Faces of Intellectual Disability : Philosophical Reflections / Licia Carlson.

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Carlson, Licia, 1970-

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text

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ISBN:

9780253003942
0253003946
9780253354211
0253354218
9780253221575
0253221579
1282539787
9781282539785
9786612539787
661253978X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Faces of intellectual disability.DDC classification:

616.85/88 22

LOC classification:

RC570.2 .C37 2010eb

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2010 A-847
WM 300

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80.26
MS 6250

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Contents:

The institutional world of intellectual disability -- Twin brothers : the "idiot" and the institution -- Gendered objects, gendered subjects -- Analytic interlude -- The philosophical world of intellectual disability -- The face of authority -- The face of the beast -- The face of suffering.

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Summary: In a challenge to current thinking about cognitive impairment, this book explores what it means to treat people with intellectual disabilities in an ethical manner. Reassessing philosophical views of intellectual disability, Licia Carlson shows how we can affirm the dignity and worth of intellectually disabled people first by ending comparisons to nonhuman animals and then by confronting our fears and discomforts. Carlson presents the complex history of ideas about cognitive disability, the treatment of i.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

In a challenge to current thinking about cognitive impairment, this book explores what it means to treat people with intellectual disabilities in an ethical manner. Reassessing philosophical views of intellectual disability, Licia Carlson shows how we can affirm the dignity and worth of intellectually disabled people first by ending comparisons to nonhuman animals and then by confronting our fears and discomforts. Carlson presents the complex history of ideas about cognitive disability, the treatment of i.

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