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1 online resource. "Intellectual Disability: Ethics, Dehumanization, and a New Moral Community presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the roots and evolution of the dehumanization of people with intellectual disabilities. This book: Examines the roots of disability ethics from a psychological, philosophical, and educational perspective ; Presents a coherent, sustained moral perspective in examining the historical dehumanization of people with diminished cognitive abilities ; Includes a series of narratives and case descriptions to illustrate arguments ; Reveals the importance of an interdisciplinary understanding of the social construction of intellectual disability."--Publisher's website. Why study disability? -- Part I. The roots of dehumanization. Intellectual disability: history and evolution of definitions -- The social construction of Purgatory: ideas and institutions -- A failure of intelligence -- The consequences of reason: moral philosophy and intelligence -- Part II. Out of the darkness. Defining the person: The moral and social consequences of philosophies of selfhood -- Alternative views of moral engagement: relationality and rationality -- Culture and intellectual disability -- Part III. Disability ethics for a new age. Quality of life and perception of self -- Application and best practices: rights, education, and ethics -- Visions of the future. Heather E. Keith and Kenneth D. Keith. Includes bibliographical references and index. People with mental disabilities Cross-cultural studies People with mental disabilities Social conditions Mental illness Moral and ethical aspects Mental illness Cross-cultural studies Ethnopsychology Cross-cultural studies Difference (Psychology) Cross-cultural studies Group identity Cross-cultural studies Social isolation Cross-cultural studies SOCIAL SCIENCE People with Disabilities Difference (Psychology) Ethnopsychology Group identity Mental illness Mental illness Moral and ethical aspects People with mental disabilities People with mental disabilities Social conditions Social isolation HV3004 305.9/085 Keith, Heather E. Chichester, West Sussex : J. Wiley, 2013 (DLC) 2012050965 9781118586440 1118586441 9781118586471 1118586476 9781118606926 1118606922 9781118606957 1118606957 0470674326 9780470674321 9781299313835 1299313833 2013008553 462633 MIL http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118606957 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118606957 DLC 130228 20171107091940.0 ocn828776022 eng