Introduction: The Search for an Ethically Sound Approach to Caring for Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
The health care for persons with a developmental or intellectual disability (IDD) has greatly improved in recent decades, such that they live longer and enjoy better health. Paradoxically, eugenic efforts to prevent persons with IDD from even being born, marginalization of members with IDD from our...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center for the Study of Religion and Society at Creighton University
2015
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Journal of religion & society. Supplement
Year: 2015, Volume: 12, Pages: 1-7 |
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| Summary: | The health care for persons with a developmental or intellectual disability (IDD) has greatly improved in recent decades, such that they live longer and enjoy better health. Paradoxically, eugenic efforts to prevent persons with IDD from even being born, marginalization of members with IDD from our communities, and extensive health care disparities persist as well. These concerns provided the impetus for the International Association of Catholic Bioethicists to devote its sixth bi-annual international colloquium (Rome, 2013) to an ethical reflection on the care of persons with IDD. Reworked versions of several of the papers prepared for and presented at the colloquium were combined to create a JRS Supplement. In this introduction to the volume, the authors briefly present the main themes covered and conclude that the ethical insights gained merit the attention not only of those who are engaged in health care of persons with IDD, but of care givers of all patients. |
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| ISSN: | 1941-8450 |
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