Quality of Life and Human Difference: Genetic Testing, Health Care, and Disability

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.

Author: David Wasserman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 05/09/2005
Pages: 273
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.58w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9780521539715

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2006 pg. 1044
Scitech Book News 09/01/2006 pg. 103
Choice 06/01/2007 pg. 1685