This book examines a range of important conceptual, ethical, social and religious issues arising from mental handicap. It contains a vigorous defence of the contention that mentally handicapped human beings are persons. It attacks both the contemporary philosophical attempts to dismiss the personhood of mentally handicapped people and the genocidal policies which those attempts suggest. It explores the logic of the attitudes which have lead to the marginalisation and oppression of the mentally handicapped.
- ISBN13 9780312234607
- Publish Date 15 September 2000 (first published 1 January 2000)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition 2000 ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 175
- Language English