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The Tasks of Embodied Love: Moral Problems in Caring for Children with Disabilities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Roger S. Gottlieb
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Abstract

Neither secular moral theory nor religious ethics have had much place for persons in need of constant physical help and cognitive support, nor for those who provide care for them. Writing as the father of a fourteen-year-old daughter with multiple disabilities, I will explore some of moral issues that arise here, both from the point of view of the disabled child and from that of the child's caretaker(s).

Type
Symposium on Eva Kittay's Love's Labor: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependency
Information
Hypatia , Volume 17 , Issue 3: Special Issue: Feminism and Disability, Part 2 , Summer 2002 , pp. 225 - 236
Copyright
Copyright © 2002 by Hypatia, Inc.

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