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This collection of original essays, from both established scholars and newcomers, takes up a recent debate in philosophy, sociology, and disability studies on whether disability is intrinsically a harm that lowers a person's quality of life. While this is a new question in disability scholarship, it also touches on one of the oldest philosophical questions: what is the good human life? Historically, philosophers have not been interested in the topic of disability, and when they are it is usually only in relation to questions such as euthanasia, abortion, or the moral status of disabled people. Consequently disability has been either ignored by moral and political philosophers or simply equated with a bad human life, a life not worth living. This collection takes up the challenge that disability poses to basic questions of political philosophy and bioethics, among others, by focusing on fundamental issues and practical implications of the relationship between disability and the good human life.

Sociology of disability. --- People with disabilities --- Quality of life. --- Disabilities --- Sociology of disablement --- Sociology of impairment --- Life, Quality of --- Economic history --- Human ecology --- Life --- Social history --- Basic needs --- Human comfort --- Social accounting --- Work-life balance --- Social conditions. --- Sociological aspects --- Law --- General and Others

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This study brings together two important literatures together in the one volume. One concerns the role of quality assessments in social policy, especially health policy. The second concerns ethical and social issues raised by prenatal testing for disability. Hitherto, these two literatures have had little contact with each other: few scholars have written about both, or have compared the two domains in a systematic way, while people with disabilities and disability scholars are underrepresented in recent discussion on health policy and quality of assessment. 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. This volume will be sought after by bioethicists, philosophers, and specialists in disability studies and healthcare economics.

Fetus --- Genetic screening --- Medical ethics --- Prenatal diagnosis --- Quality of life --- genetische ziekten --- handicap --- keuzes in de gezondheidszorg (keuzen) --- levenskwaliteit --- prenatale diagnostiek (prenatale test) --- #SBIB:316.334.3M11 --- #SBIB:316.334.3M51 --- Life, Quality of --- Economic history --- Human ecology --- Life --- Social history --- Basic needs --- Human comfort --- Social accounting --- Work-life balance --- Antenatal diagnosis --- Intrauterine diagnosis --- Prenatal testing --- Diagnosis --- Obstetrics --- Biomedical ethics --- Clinical ethics --- Ethics, Medical --- Health care ethics --- Medical care --- Medicine --- Bioethics --- Professional ethics --- Nursing ethics --- Social medicine --- Human chromosome abnormalities --- Medical screening --- Foetus --- Unborn child --- Embryology --- Reproduction --- Abnormalities&delete& --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Social aspects --- maladies génétiques --- invalidité (handicap) --- choix en termes de soins de santé --- qualité de vie (années de vie ajustées sur la qualité) --- diagnostic prénatal (test prénatal, DPN) --- Medische sociologie: concepten en theorieën --- Organisatie van de gezondheidszorg: modellen van therapeutisch handelen --- Abnormalities --- Arts and Humanities --- Philosophy --- Medical ethics. --- Quality of life. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Diagnosis.