Quality of Life and Human Difference: Genetic Testing, Health Care, and Disability (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy)

Book info: Quality of Life and Human Difference: Genetic Testing, Health Care, and Disability (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy) (Hardcover, 288 pages) – Cambridge University Press, 2005. Language: English.

The role of quality assessments in social policy, especially health policy, and ethical and social issues raised by prenatal testing for disability are discussed in this analysis. A theme of the literature has been the role played by controversial assumptions about the quality of life of people with disabilities. This book turns the perspectives of disability scholars to issues that have largely been the province of health methodology, policy and philosophy, while re-directing philosophical policy analysis to problems that have largely been the province of disability scholarship. Editorial Reviews Review "The nine essays bring together ethical concerns relating to the prenatal testing of fetuses for disease and/or disability, and quantitative assessments of quality of life used to measure the cost-effectiveness of efficiency of health care interventions....Highly recommended." -CHOICE, H.J. John, emerita, Trinity College Book Description Discusses the role of quality assessments in social policy, raised by prenatal testing for disability.