The Disability Bioethics Reader

The Disability Bioethics Reader is the first introduction to the field of bioethics presented through the lens of critical disability studies and the philosophy of disability.

Joel Michael Reynolds is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Disability Studies at Georgetown University, Senior Research Scholar in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Senior Advisor to The Hastings Center, and core faculty in Georgetown's Disability Studies Program. Reynolds is author of The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality (University of Minnesota Press), the founder of The Journal of Philosophy of Disability, and co-founder of the Oxford Studies in Disability, Ethics, and Society book series from Oxford University Press. Christine Wieseler is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Wieseler is author of articles published in Hypatia, IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, and Social Philosophy Today as well as chapters in two edited book collections.

1. A Short History of Modern Medicine and Disability 2. Eugenics, Disability, and Bioethics 3. Theories of Disability 4. A Critical History of Bioethics 5. Methods of Bioethics 6. Disability Bioethics 7. Disability and the Definition of Health 8. The Lived Experiences of Illness and Disability 9. Abortion, Disability Rights, and Reproductive Justice 10. A Fatal Attraction to Normalizing 11. Being Disabled and Contemplating Disabled Children 12. The Wrongs of Wrongful Birth 13. Disability, Ideology, and Quality of Life 14. The Challenge of Chronic Pain 15. Chronic Illness and Well-Being 16. Disability and Aging Studies 17. Death, Pandemic, and Intersectionality 18. Disorders of Consciousness, Disability Rights, and Triage during the COVID-19 Pandemic 19. Bioethical Issues in Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease 20. Between "Aid in Dying" and "Assisted Suicide" 21. Theorizing the Intersections of Ableism, Sanism, Ageism and Suicidism in Suicide and Physician-Assisted Death Debates 22. Disability Bioethics and Race 23. Bioethics and the Deaf Community 24. Hunger Always Wins 25. Trans Care within and against the Medical-Industrial Complex 26. Defining Mental Illness & Psychiatric Disability 27. Research Ethics and Intellectual Disability 28. Inconvenient Complications to Patient Choice and Psychiatric Detention 29. Disability Bioethics, Ashley X, and Disability Justice for People with Cognitive Impairments 30. Feminist Theorizing and Disability Bioethics 31. Disability Bioethics and Epistemic Injustice 32. Disability Studies Meets Animal Studies 33. Improving Access within the Clinic 34. The Goals of Medical Technology 35. "Why insist on justice, why not settle for kindness?" Kindness, justice, and cognitive disability 36. Selections of Brilliant Imperfection