The Faces of Intellectual Disability(English, Paperback, Carlson Licia)

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The Faces of Intellectual Disability(English, Paperback, Carlson Licia) is written by Carlson Licia and published by Indiana University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0253221579 (ISBN 10) and 9780253221575 (ISBN 13).

In a challenge to current thinking about cognitive impairment, this book explores what it means to treat people with intellectual disabilities in an ethical manner. Reassessing philosophical views of intellectual disability, Licia Carlson shows how we can affirm the dignity and worth of intellectually disabled people first by ending comparisons to nonhuman animals and then by confronting our fears and discomforts. Carlson presents the complex history of ideas about cognitive disability, the treatment of intellectually disabled people, and social and cultural reactions to them. Sensitive and clearly argued, this book offers new insights on recent trends in disability studies and philosophy.