Quality of Life and Human Difference: Genetic Testing, Health Care, and Disability (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy) [Paperback]

David Wasserman (Editor), Jerome Bickenbach (Editor), Robert Wachbroit (Editor)

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Publication Date: May 9, 2005 | ISBN-10: 0521539714 | ISBN-13: 978-0521539715

The role of quality assessments in social policy, especially health policy, and ethical and social issues raised by prenatal testing for disability are discussed in this analysis. A theme of the literature has been the role played by controversial assumptions about the quality of life of people with disabilities. This book turns the perspectives of disability scholars to issues that have largely been the province of health methodology, policy and philosophy, while re-directing philosophical policy analysis to problems that have largely been the province of disability scholarship.

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"The nine essays bring together ethical concerns relating to the prenatal testing of fetuses for disease and/or disability, and quantitative assessments of quality of life used to measure the cost-effectiveness of efficiency of health care interventions....Highly recommended." -CHOICE, H.J. John, emerita, Trinity College

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The concern for the role of quality assessments in social policy, especially health policy and ethical and social issues raised by prenatal testing for disability are here discussed. A theme of this literature has been the role played by controversial assumptions about the quality of life of people with disabilities.This book turns the perspectives of disability scholars on issues that have largely been the province of health methodology, policy and philosophy, while angling philosophical policy analysis on problems that have largely been the province of disability scholarship.

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• Paperback: 286 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press (May 9, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521539714
• ISBN-13: 978-0521539715
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.6 x 0.7 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Serious Look at a Problem of Our Time, May 29, 2005

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This review is from: Quality of Life and Human Difference: Genetic Testing, Health Care, and Disability (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy) (Paperback)

With increased pre-natal genetic testing comes the knowledge to know of disabilities that the chile will face later. This book is a series of papers describing the ethical and social issues this raises. A second theme is a discussion of the quality of life for disable persons.

This book came from a working group that the editors convened. Papers were presented on the subject, and then afterwards they were revised in light of the deliberations at the conference. The contents range from the social contract under which we all live to the right of the individual woman to terminate a pregnancy for any reason what so ever (as defined by Roe v. Wade).