![]() ![]() Just as earlier generations of philosophers assumed the legitimacy of the social prejudices of their own times, mainstream bioethicists have assumed the correctness of prevailing assumptions about disability. The late Adrienne Asch considered herself a mainstream bioethicist even though her progressive views of disability were rare among her colleagues.ĭisability rights is a serious civil rights movement, equal in significance to gay rights, feminism, resistance against discrimination on the basis of 'race,' and a number of other such movements. (For discussion see Amundson and Tresky 2007 2008.) I confess to the prejudice implied by my label of 'mainstream bioethicists' as those beset by the prejudice of ableism. An example of this tradition can be seen in the volume From Choice to Chance: Genetics and Justice, coauthored by four of the most prominent bioethicists of the turn of the century (Buchanan, Brock, Daniels, and Wikler 2000). It provides a clear defense of certain core principles of the disability rights movement in contrast to the many professional philosophers (those which I will term 'mainstream bioethicists') who consider that movement to be ill-conceived. ![]() ![]() Professor Elizabeth Barnes has produced a tightly and carefully reasoned philosophical examination of the significance of disability. ![]()
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