The Disability Bioethics Reader 1st Edition by Joel Michael Reynolds, Christine Wieseler ISBN 1000587215 9781000587210

Part I History, Medicine, and Disability

1 A Short History Of Modern Medicine and Disability

2 Eugenics, Disability, and Bioethics

3 Theories of Disability

Part II Bioethics: Past and Present

4 A Critical History of Bioethics

5 Methods of Bioethics

6 Disability Bioethics: From Theory to Practice

Part III Philosophy of Medicine and Phenomenology

7 Disability and the Definition of Health

8 The Lived Experiences of Illness and Disability

Part IV Prenatal Testing and Abortion

9 Abortion, Disability Rights, and Reproductive Justice

10 A Fatal Attraction to Normalizing: Treating Disabilities as Deviations from ‘Species-Typical’ Functioning

11 Being Disabled and Contemplating Disabled Children

12 The Wrongs of ‘Wrongful Birth’: Disability, Race, and Reproductive Justice

Part V Disability, the Life Course, and Well-Being

13 Disability, Ideology, and Quality of Life: A Bias in Biomedical Ethics

14 The Case of Chronic Pain

15 Chronic Illness, Well-Being, And Social Values

16 Disability and Age Studies: Obstacles and Opportunities

Part VI Issues at the Edge and End of Life

17 Death, Pandemic, and Intersectionality: What the Failures in an End-of-Life Case Can Teach about Structural Justice and COVID-19

18 Disorders of Consciousness, Disability Rights, and Triage During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Even the Best of Intentions Can Lead to Bias

19 Bioethical Issues in Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease

20 Between “Aid in Dying” and “Assisted Suicide”: Disability Bioethics and the Right to Die

21 Theorizing the Intersections of Ableism, Sanism, Ageism and Suicidism in Suicide and Physician-Assisted Death Debates

Part VII Disability, Difference, and Health Care

22 Disability Bioethics and Race

23 Bioethics and the Deaf Community

24 Hunger Always Wins: Contesting the Medicalization of Fat Bodies

25 Trans Care Within and Against the Medical-Industrial Complex

Part VIII Intellectual and Mental Disabilities

26 Defining Mental Illness and Psychiatric Disability

27 Research Ethics and Intellectual Disability: Finding the Middle Ground between Protection and Exclusion

28 Inconvenient Complications to Patient Choice and Psychiatric Detention: An Auto-ethnographic Account of Mad Carework

29 Disability Bioethics, Ashley X, and Disability Justice For People with Cognitive Impairments

Part IX Disability Bioethics: Connections and New Directions

30 Feminist Theorizing and Disability Bioethics

31 Disability Bioethics and Epistemic Injustice

32 Disability Studies Meets Animal Studies

Part X The Ends of Medicine: Caring, Curing, and Justice

33 Improving Access Within the Clinic

34 The Goals of Biomedical Technology

35 “Why Insist on Justice, Why not Settle for Kindness?” Kindness, Justice, and Cognitive Disability

36 Selections of Brilliant Imperfection

Index