Philosophical and Ethical Problems in Mental Handicap

This book examines a range of important conceptual, ethical, social, and religious issues arising from mental handicap. It contains a vigorous defense of the contention that mentally handicapped human beings are persons. It attacks both the contemporary philosophical attempts to dismiss the personhood of mentally handicapped people and the genocidal policies which those attempts suggest. It explores the logic of the attitudes which have lead to the marginalization and oppression of the ment...