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- Disability, Health, Law, and Bioethics
- Disability, Health, Law, and Bioethics
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Disability: Definitions and Theories
- Part II Disability in the Beginning and the End of Life
- Part III Disability in the Clinical Setting
- Introduction to Part III
- 7 Expressing Respect for People with Disabilities in Medical Practice
- 8 Disabled Bodies and Good Organs
- 9 Humanizing Clinical Care for Patients with Disabilities
- 10 Chronic Pain As a Challenge for Disability Theory and Policy
- Part IV Equality, Expertise, and Access
- Part V Disability, Intersectionality, and Social Movements
- Part VI Quantifying Disability
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
- Disability, Health, Law, and Bioethics
- Disability, Health, Law, and Bioethics
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Disability: Definitions and Theories
- Part II Disability in the Beginning and the End of Life
- Part III Disability in the Clinical Setting
- Introduction to Part III
- 7 Expressing Respect for People with Disabilities in Medical Practice
- 8 Disabled Bodies and Good Organs
- 9 Humanizing Clinical Care for Patients with Disabilities
- 10 Chronic Pain As a Challenge for Disability Theory and Policy
- Part IV Equality, Expertise, and Access
- Part V Disability, Intersectionality, and Social Movements
- Part VI Quantifying Disability
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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