Radical Bioethics : : Difference, Disability, and Desiderata / / written by Mary Jo Iozzio.

• VerfasserIn: Iozzio, Mary Jo,
• Place / Publishing House: London : : IntechOpen,, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 pages)

With diatoms-globally abundant single cell algae-as both a model and an extreme example of diversity among a single species, Radical Bioethics examines narrow constructions of human diversity as a failure of imagination and a refusal to recognize disability as another instance of difference. Along with other disciplines, bioethics has been slow to consider its biases, inherited from a history of social constructions, against people with disability. Both desire and desiderata offer an alternative to harms committed against people with disability in matters relating to initiatives that foster their inclusion as critical participants in and rightful recipients of the commonweal.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. A theological anthropology of radical dependence -- 3. Why "radical" bioethics? -- 3.1 Meanings and implications of Radicality -- 3.2 A brief survey of historical experiences -- 4. A disability-informed bioethics -- 4.1 Disability is multi-dimensional and multi-experiential -- 4.2 A radical shift in understanding disability -- 5. The difference of radical bioethics -- 6. Radical bioethics: desiderata -- 7. Concluding thoughts on radical bioethics -- References.