Poorer health among disabled people to be investigated
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Causing disabled people to exist and causing people to be disabled.
Attempts to determine or to select what kind of person or people to bring into existence are controversial. This is particularly true of “negative selection” or “selecting against” a certain type of person—that is, the attempt to prevent a person of a certain type, or people of that type, from existing. Virtually everyone agrees that some instances of negative selection are objectionable—for ex...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0959-8138,1756-1833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.330.7481.8-d