Cognitive Disability in a Society of Equals

Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge to Moral Philosophy

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 147-159

  Wolff, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Care, cognitive disability in society of equals; Cognitive disability and those with physical disability and those with no cognitive disability; Egalitarian political philosophy slow to take up challenge of disability; History of disability policy in United Kingdom; Imaginative set of policies, spirit of experiment than dogma doing our best.; Self directed services, making an improvement in everyone's life; Social model of disability favouring status enhancement as response to disability; Those with severe cognitive disability many not able to exercise much choice

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EID: 84872357594     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444322781.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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