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Philosophical and Ethical Problems in Mental Handicap

P Byrne author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

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This book examines a range of important conceptual, ethical, social and religious issues arising from mental handicap. It contains a vigorous defence of the contention that mentally handicapped human beings are persons. It attacks both the contemporary philosophical attempts to dismiss the personhood of mentally handicapped people and the genocidal policies which those attempts suggest. It explores the logic of the attitudes which have lead to the marginalisation and oppression of the mentally handicapped.

ISBN: 9780333801161

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 394g

175 pages