DISABILITY

‘Consult the disabled before enhancing people’ disabled poet advises

Michael Cook | 10 June 2017 | Comments

tags: disability, enhancement

The bittersweet feeling of seeing your disability disappear

---

Searing report on Hungarian home for disabled forces closure

Michael Cook | 06 May 2017 | Comments

tags: deinstitutionalisation, disability, hungary

Government to opt for de-institutionalisation

---

Counting Down syndrome Americans

Michael Cook | 29 April 2017 | Comments

tags: disability, down syndrome

Life expectancy has risen steeply

---

Bill to restrict disability-selective abortion progresses in House of Lords

Xavier Symons | 12 November 2016 | Comments

tags: abortion, disability, uk

A UK bill that would restrict disability-selective abortion has passed its second reading.

---

Are abortions for cleft palate rising in the UK?

Michael Cook | 10 September 2016 | Comments

tags: abortion, disability, uk

The latest figures suggest that pre-natal tests are to blame

---

Rethinking disability and procreation

Xavier Symons | 10 September 2016 | Comments

tags: abortion, art, bioethics and the humanities, disability

A disability advocate reflects on life with two disabled children.

---

Diversity, disability and eugenics: an interview with Rob Sparrow

Xavier Symons | 11 August 2016 | Comments

tags: abortion, disability, eugenics, forced sterilization, genetic screening, interviews

In a provocative interview with BioEdge, influential bioethicist and philosopher Rob Sparrow discusses various current controversies in bioethics.

---

19 intellectually disabled murdered in Japan

Michael Cook | 06 August 2016 | Comments

tags: disability, eugenics, japan

Killer wanted to reduce the burden on society

---

Pope attacks culture of ‘perfect people’

Michael Cook | 18 June 2016 | Comments

tags: disability, Pope Francis

"They become an unacceptable economic burden in time of crisis"

---

Disability backlash to pro-euthanasia film

Xavier Symons | 04 June 2016 | Comments

tags: disability, euthanasia, film, UK

Rom-com suggests that they are better off dead.

---

Is disability a disadvantage or a mere difference?

Xavier Symons | 02 April 2016 | Comments

tags: disability, discrimination, justice

Renewed interest in disability and philosophy has culminated in some spirited academic debate

---

“At some point, I stopped looking back”

Philip Elias | 01 March 2016 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, disability, Switzerland

Italian who once made an appointment with Dignitas has top job in government.

---

Pope sets out his bioethics priorities

Michael Cook | 29 January 2016 | Comments

tags: Catholic bioethics, disability, environment, Pope Francis

Care for the environment heads the list.

---

Disability and dungeons in Philadelphia

Michael Cook | 07 November 2015 | Comments

tags: abuse of disabled, disability

Woman sentenced to life for enslaving and torturing disabled people.

---

New Down syndrome test could be more “efficient”

Xavier Symons | 13 June 2015 | Comments

tags: abortion, disability, Down syndrome, pregnancy

UK researchers are hailing the development of a ‘safer’ and more ‘cost-effective’ pregnancy-screening test.

---

“Professor, do your homework,” disability group tells Singer

Michael Cook | 08 May 2015 | Comments

tags: disability, infanticide, Peter Singer

Bioethicist slated by US National Council on Disability.

---

Disabled children kept in cages in Greek childcare centre

Xavier Symons | 15 November 2014 | Comments

tags: disability, human rights

At least one disability-care facility in Greece has been keeping its residents in cages.

---

Where do we draw the line on bioehancement?

Xavier Symons | 15 November 2014 | Comments

tags: disability, human bioehancement

A new American bioethics documentary examines the ethical issues surrounding human enhancement for people with disabilities.

---

Pistorius verdict - disability is not a defence

Xavier Symons | 12 September 2014 | Comments

tags: disability, law, moral psychology, South Africa

Oscar Pistorius has been told that disability is not a defence. He has been cleared of murder, but may be given a lengthy sentence for manslaughter.

---

Should governments pay for sex for the disabled?

Michael Cook | 09 August 2014 | Comments

tags: disability, prostitution

Finding prostitutes for disabled clients is sometimes part of a social worker's job, even though both the legality and morality of this practice are disputed.

Page 1 of 2 :  1 2 >