Intellectual Disability: Ethics, Dehumanization and a New Moral Community

<p><i>Intellectual Disability: Ethics, Dehumanization, and a New Moral</i><i> Community </i>presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the roots and evolution of the dehumanization of people with intellectual disabilities.</p> <ul> <li>Examines the roots of disability ethics from a psychological, philosophical, and educational perspective</li> <li>Presents a coherent, sustained moral perspective in examining the historical dehumanization of people with diminished cognitive abilities</li> <li>Includes a series of narratives and case descriptions to illustrate arguments</li> <li>Reveals the importance of an interdisciplinary understanding of the social construction of intellectual disability</li> </ul>