Disabled people and the right to life : the protection and violation of disabled people's most basic human rights / edited by Luke Clements and Janet Read.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : life, disability, and the pursuit of human rights / Luke Clements, Janet Read -- Mending, not ending : cost-effectiveness analysis, preferences and the right to a life with disabilities / David Wasserman, Adrienne Asch, Jerome Bickenbach -- Deadly currents beneath calm waters : persons with disability and the right to life in Australia / Phillip French, Rosemary Kayess -- It's my life - it's my decision? : assisted dying versus assisted living / Jane Campbell -- Disability rights and resuscitation : do not attempt reconciliation? / Tom Shakespeare, Bryan Vernon -- Disability, human rights and re-distributive justice : some reflections from the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan on popular perceptions of disabled people / Shaheen Sardar Ali -- Human rights aspects of deaths of institutionalized people with disabilities in Europe / Jan Fiala, Oliver Lewis -- Demonstrably awful : the right to life and the selective non-treatment of disabled babies and young children / Janet Read, Luke Clements -- End-of-life decisions in neonatology and the right to life of the disabled newborn child : impressions from the Netherlands / Jozef H.H.M. Dorscheidt -- The right to life and the right to health of children with disabilities before courts : some Latin American examples / Christian Courtis -- Access to care and the right to life of disabled children in Bulgaria / Boika Rechel -- Unheard voices : human rights issues of disabled youngsters from Romanian institutions / Mirela Saupe -- The classification of newborn children : consequences for survival / Jónína Einarsdóttir.

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