How Disability Activism Advances Disability Bioethics

How to Evaluate Disability

A disability assessment for non-therapeutic reasons is the most common evaluation requested of treating psychiatrists. Mental disorders affect approximately 20 percent of Americans each year. People who are unable to work need some financial assistance. As part of the system, it's our goal to assist them in this process. When a disability claim is filed, psychiatrists take into account the indi...

Bioethics and Disability Rights: Conflicting Values and Perspectives

Continuing tensions exist between mainstream bioethics and advocates of the disability rights movement. This paper explores some of the grounds for those tensions as exemplified in From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice by Allen Buchanan and coauthors, a book by four prominent bioethicists that is critical of the disability rights movement. One set of factors involves the nature of disabil...

How to derive disability weights

Drawing the Line: Disability, Genetic Intervention and Bioethics

Meteoric scientific advances in genetic technologies with the potential for human gene editing intervention pose tremendous legal, medical, social, ethical and moral issues for society as a whole. Persons with disabilities in particular have a significant stake in determining how these technologies are governed at the international, domestic and individual levels in the future. However, the law...

Disability Studies/Not Disability Studies

The growing interest in and increased visibility of the ® eld of Disability Studies raises questions about the ® eld’ s logical borders and valid dimensions. This essay looks to guiding principles from the ® eld itself as the basis for delineating a robust liberal arts-based inquiry into disability, distinct from traditional interventionist models. The former is described in this essay as Disab...