For the Handicapped, Rights But No Welcome

Hastings Center Report 16 (3):5-8 (1986)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

The multiplication of rights— legally enforceable claims on the attention, actions, and resources of others—can carry us only so far. Improvements for the handicapped depend primarily on improving the attitudes of the nonhandicapped majority through appeals to conscience and good will.

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

2012

DOI

10.2307/3563264

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 92,497

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

Ethics and Marginal Cases: the rights of the mentally handicapped.Frank de Roose - 1989 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 6 (1):87-96.
Fourth Circuit Limits §504 Employment Rights of the Handicapped.Kent Hull - 1980 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 8 (3):8-9.
Informed dissent: the view of a disabled woman.Alison Davis - 1986 - Journal of Medical Ethics 12 (2):75-76.
Taking visual disability into account: Explaining failure to experts and non-experts. [REVIEW]Elke Klein-Allermann & Martin Kumpf - 1993 - Argumentation 7 (2):149-163.
Human rights and human well-being.William Talbott - 2010 - New York: Oxford University Press.
Collective Rights and Minority Rights.Seumas Miller - 2000 - International Journal of Applied Philosophy 14 (2):241-257.
The proliferation of rights: moral progress or empty rhetoric?Carl Wellman - 1999 - Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press.
Language Rights as Collective Rights: Some Conceptual Considerations on Language Rights.Manuel Toscano - 2012 - Res Publica. Murcia 27:109-118.
Pregnancy in a severely mentally handicapped adult.J. O'Hara - 1989 - Journal of Medical Ethics 15 (4):197-199.
Why the handicapped child case is hard.Josh Parsons - 2003 - Philosophical Studies 112 (2):147 - 162.
The structure of basic human rights.George E. Panichas - 1985 - Law and Philosophy 4 (3):343 - 375.
Informed dissent.M. Simms - 1986 - Journal of Medical Ethics 12 (4):216-216.
Cultural diversity and patients with reduced capacity: The use of ethics consultation to advocate for mentally handicapped persons in living organ donation.Jeffrey Spike - 2001 - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 22 (6):519-526.

Analytics

Added to PP
2013-11-22

Downloads
8 (#1,325,033)

6 months
4 (#799,256)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references