RT Article
T1 The Weight of Living: Autonomy, Care, and Responsibility for the Self
JF Journal of disability & religion
VO 22
IS 3
SP 266
OP 282
A1 McKearney, Patrick
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1663287058
AB What control should we have over our death? In this paper, I re-examine the way this question has been approached in the euthanasia debate by exploring what it means to take responsibility for one's own life, especially in the face of mental disability. I do so through presenting anthropological research on the role of care, autonomy, and responsibility in L'Arche-a Christian organization in the United Kingdom in which people with and without learning disabilities share community- to identify, contextualize, and challenge central assumptions about agency in the euthanasia debate.
K1 Learning disability
K1 Agency
K1 Autonomy
K1 Care
K1 Euthanasia
K1 Responsibility
K1 Social Anthropology
DO 10.1080/23312521.2018.1483219