Intellectual Disability: Ethics, Dehumanization, and a New by Heather Keith, Kenneth D. Keith
By Heather Keith, Kenneth D. Keith
Intellectual incapacity: Ethics, Dehumanization, and a brand new Moral neighborhood presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the roots and evolution of the dehumanization of individuals with highbrow disabilities.
- Examines the roots of incapacity ethics from a mental, philosophical, and academic perspective
- Presents a coherent, sustained ethical point of view in reading the historic dehumanization of individuals with decreased cognitive abilities
- Includes a chain of narratives and case descriptions to demonstrate arguments
- Reveals the significance of an interdisciplinary realizing of the social development of highbrow disability
Content:
Chapter 1 highbrow incapacity: background and Evolution of Definitions (pages 1–18):
Chapter 2 The Social building of Purgatory: principles and associations (pages 19–36):
Chapter three A Failure of Intelligence (pages 37–52):
Chapter four the implications of cause: ethical Philosophy and Intelligence (pages 53–76):
Chapter five Defining the individual: the ethical and Social outcomes of Philosophies of Selfhood (pages 77–94):
Chapter 6 substitute perspectives of ethical Engagement: Relationality and Rationality (pages 95–115):
Chapter 7 tradition and highbrow incapacity (pages 116–130):
Chapter eight caliber of existence and notion of Self (pages 131–150):
Chapter nine program and top Practices: Rights, schooling, and Ethics (pages 151–169):
Chapter 10 Epilogue: Visions of the long run (pages 170–176):
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Intellectual disability) will soon develop the same cultural stigma. This realization naturally leads to speculation about the role of culture and the social context as influences on the recognition and definition of intellectual disability. Social Construction of Intellectual Disability Behavioral scientists have long recognized the role of hypothetical constructs in development of theory and explanations for psychological phenomena. Such constructs refer to entities, events, or processes that are not observed, but are “somethings” possessing causal properties (MacCorquodale & Meehl, 1948).
With communication skills and help from others, Sienkiewicz-Mercer was able to become educated and to move from the institution to a group apartment and then to her own apartment. She was able to deepen friendships and eventually marry, and to become an advocate for transitioning institutionalized people to the community. Following a series of lawsuits dealing with issues of treatment and individual rights, Belchertown closed in 1992, 70 years after its opening and nearly a century following Fernald’s (1893) assertion that people with intellectual disability were prone to lead “dissolute lives” (p.
His is but one case in a century or more of use, misuse, and abuse of intelligence and its measurement in relation to the construct of intellectual disability and the people presumed to possess it. In this chapter we will introduce the construct of intelligence and briefly discuss its history and use. We will see how various scholars have conceptualized intelligence and some of the cultural and social influences that have played a role in our understanding of intelligence. Despite the central role that intelligence plays in modern education and culture, and in our views of ourselves and others, the range and complexity of existing views of intelligence may prove surprising.