How Then Should We Die? Two Opposing Responses to the Challenges of Suffering and Death: By S. Kay Toombs. Elm Mott, TX, Colloquium Press. 2021. Pp. 165. £8.43. ISBN: 9780916387228.
Toombs' own thoughts on disability seem considerably different from mainstream disability ethics. She argues that we must move beyond an identity politics that focuses on disability as the locus of identity, and instead recognize and affirm I the person i who is the subject of the experience of disa...
| Publicado en: | New Bioethics Vol. 29; no. 2; pp. 193 - 195 |
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