Reconsidering Intellectual Disability
L'Arche, Medical Ethics, and Christian Friendship
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- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2015
Summary
Drawing on the controversial case of “Ashley X,” a girl with severe developmental disabilities who received interventionist medical treatment to limit her growth and keep her body forever small-a procedure now known as the “Ashley Treatment”-Reconsidering Intellectual Disability explores important questions at the intersection of disability theory, Christian moral theology, and bioethics. What are the biomedical boundaries of acceptable treatment for those not able to give informed consent? …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781626162433 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1626162433 |
| Author: | Jason Reimer Greig |
| Publisher: | Georgetown University Press |
| Imprint: | Georgetown University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2015 |
| Weight: | 431g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | Moral Traditions series |
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Reconsidering Intellectual Disability is a challenging work of practical theology by a promising young scholar… . There is a great deal of wisdom to be gleaned from its argument.
Reconsidering Intellectual Disability is a challenging work of practical theology by a promising young scholar… . There is a great deal of wisdom to be gleaned from its argument.
* Catholic Books Review *This is an important book… . As our society struggles … [Greig] reminds us of the importance of community.
* Canadian Mennonite *Offers a powerful account of how Christian communities can contribute to the transformation of the moral understanding of medicine in the West.
* Mennonite Quarterly Review *Many of those not yet familiar with this field of theological reflection will find Greig’s argument challenging, inspirational and perhaps, indeed, life-changing.
* Studies in Christian Ethics *It is a call to reconsider the importance of friendship and servitude in human flourishing while shedding the medical model of intellectual disability as something that is broken. We would do well to reflect on these things as we read this book.
* Ethics and Medicine *About The Author
Jason Reimer Greig
Jason Reimer Greig spent eleven years with L’Arche, an international federation of Christian communities supporting people with intellectual disabilities, as a house assistant and spiritual life coordinator. He holds an MDiv from Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary and is working on his PhD in theology at VU Free University of Amsterdam.
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