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  • Legal and ethical aspects of the management of newborns with severe disabilities

    This book provides an analytic review of issues relating to the care of newborns with severe disabilities, with particular emphasis on the human rights involved.

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  • Is it still a capital offence to have Down Syndrome?

    This paper looks at the discriminatory behaviour of withholding medical care when a baby is born with Down Syndrome and a physical problem that needs treatment.

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  • Euthanasia and mental retardation: Suggesting the unthinkable

    This paper provides historical background to euthanasia of people with disabilities, covering the eugenics movement, the state program adopted by Nazi Germany and fears about current practices today. It should be read in conjunction with File numbers 10346, 10347 and 10348. Keyword: Ethics

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  • From Munchausen to Cassandra: A critique of Hollander's "Euthanasia and Mental Retardation"

    This article should be read in conjunction with File numbers 10345, 10346 and 10348. The author believes that Hollander's central argument is valid. His critique centre's upon Hollander's "flimsy evidence" and "lack of supportive data" for his assertions.

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  • Response to Wolfensberger and Heifetz

    This article should be read in conjunction with File numbers 10345, 10346 and 10347. The author takes the responses of Wolfensberger and Heifetz to his article, "Euthanasia and Mental Retardation: Suggesting the Unthinkable" and enlarges on his original arguments. Keyword: Ethics

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  • The right to die

    This paper analyses and comments on the Victorian Medical Treatment Act of 1987 which "strengthens each person's common law rights to refuse medical treatment".

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  • Aborting defective foetuses - what will it do?

    This brief article criticises abortion for genetic reasons. The author argues that this kind of abortion is not about a woman's right to choose but about making decisions based on cultural assumptions which have been shaped by discriminatory attitudes and practices against disabled people. Keyword: Ethics

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  • Death - Making in Human Services

    This paper looks at "our fixation on the notion of 'death with dignity' (which) has psychological roots in the fear of being completely dependent on other" and relates it to the fact that euthanasia is gaining world-wide popular support.

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  • The forgotten holocaust

    This article reminds people of the "killing thoughts" that led the German welfare and medical establishment to eradicate people with disabilities, elderly people and people with odd shaped eyes and ears.

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  • Professionalized service and disabling help

    A compelling essay which analyses the negative effects of a service dominated culture and economy on citizens and communities. The author describes the way in which, despite the good intentions of many service providers, people are increasingly being defined as "deficient" in order to serve the service industry.

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