TY - BOOK AU - Keith,Heather E. AU - Keith,Kenneth D. TI - Intellectual disability: ethics, dehumanization, and a new moral community SN - 9781118586440 AV - HV3004 U1 - 305.9/085 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Chichester, West Sussex PB - J. Wiley KW - People with mental disabilities KW - Cross-cultural studies KW - Social conditions KW - Mental illness KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Ethnopsychology KW - Difference (Psychology) KW - Group identity KW - Social isolation KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - People with Disabilities KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Why study disability? -- Part I. The roots of dehumanization. Intellectual disability: history and evolution of definitions -- The social construction of Purgatory: ideas and institutions -- A failure of intelligence -- The consequences of reason: moral philosophy and intelligence -- Part II. Out of the darkness. Defining the person: The moral and social consequences of philosophies of selfhood -- Alternative views of moral engagement: relationality and rationality -- Culture and intellectual disability -- Part III. Disability ethics for a new age. Quality of life and perception of self -- Application and best practices: rights, education, and ethics -- Visions of the future N2 - "Intellectual Disability: Ethics, Dehumanization, and a New Moral Community presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the roots and evolution of the dehumanization of people with intellectual disabilities. This book: Examines the roots of disability ethics from a psychological, philosophical, and educational perspective ; Presents a coherent, sustained moral perspective in examining the historical dehumanization of people with diminished cognitive abilities ; Includes a series of narratives and case descriptions to illustrate arguments ; Reveals the importance of an interdisciplinary understanding of the social construction of intellectual disability."--Publisher's website UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118606957 ER -