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9 - Humanizing Clinical Care for Patients with Disabilities

from Part III - Disability in the Clinical Setting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2020

I. Glenn Cohen
Affiliation:
Harvard Law School, Massachusetts
Carmel Shachar
Affiliation:
Harvard Law School, Massachusetts
Anita Silvers
Affiliation:
San Francisco State University
Michael Ashley Stein
Affiliation:
Harvard Law School, Massachusetts
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Summary

Protecting patients with disabilities against discrimination in the provision of healthcare, especially violations of their civil or human rights, requires an understanding of the common biases that undermine equal treatment in clinical, diagnostic, and therapeutic contexts. Nevertheless, this topic is rarely acknowledged in legal or social scientific studies of bias in healthcare decision-making. Consequently, prejudices against persons with disabilities – “ableism” – in these settings remain prevalent and unaddressed.

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Print publication year: 2020

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