Disabled People and the Right to Life: The Protection and Violation of Disabled PeopleÆs Most Basic Human Rights

by Clements; Luke

• ISBN13: 9780415407137
• ISBN10: 0415407133
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-18
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Disabled People and the Right to Life looks at disabled people's right to life in its wider sense, discussing the right to a life that is not intolerable, a life worth living. This volume uses a human rights perspective to explore debates and challenges around what this means for disabled people.

Author Biography

Luke Clements is a professor in law at Cardiff University Law School, Wales, and a practising solicitor Janet Read is an associate professor and reader at the School of Health and Social Studies, University of Warwick, UK

Table of Contents

List of contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Preface	p. xiv
Introduction: life, disability and the pursuit of human rights	p. 1
Mending, not ending: cost-effectiveness analysis, preferences and the right to a life with disabilities	p. 30
Deadly currents beneath calm waters: persons with disability and the right to life in Australia	p. 57
It's my life - it's my decision?: assisted dying versus assisted living	p. 85
Disability rights and resuscitation: do not attempt reconciliation?	p. 99
Disability, human rights and redistributive justice: some reflections from the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan on popular perceptions of disabled people	p. 110
Human rights aspects of deaths of institutionalized people with disabilities in Europe	p. 127
Demonstrably awful: the right to life and the selective non-treatment of disabled babies and young children	p. 148
End-of-life decisions in neonatology and the right to life of the disabled newborn child: impressions from the Netherlands	p. 176
The right to life and the right to health of children with disabilities before courts: some Latin American examples	p. 195
Access to care and the right to life of disabled children in Bulgaria	p. 208
Unheard voices: human rights issues of disabled youngsters from Romanian institutions	p. 232
The classification of newborn children: consequences for survival	p. 248
Index	p. 265
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