ETHICAL ISSUES IN DISABILITY PRACTICE
DIS516
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Credit points: 15
Subject outline
Working with people with disabilities to support their rights and choices is an integral part of disability practice. In this subject, students will learn about ethical challenges faced by people with disabilities and by professionals in supporting the exercise of human rights. Debates in key topics to be explored will include personhood and citizenship, autonomy and self-determination, capacity to consent, the ethics of care, dignity of risk and duty of care, sexuality and reproductive rights.
SchoolAllied Health, Human Services & Sport
Credit points15
Subject Co-ordinatorMary Walker
Available to Study Abroad/Exchange StudentsNo
Subject year levelYear Level 5 - Masters
Available as ElectiveNo
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Prerequisites Must be admitted into HCADP
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Incompatible subjectsADP5EID
Equivalent subjectsDIS506
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Readings
The faces of intellectual disability: Philosophical reflections
Resource TypeRecommended
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AuthorCarlson, A., L.
Year2010
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PublisherIndiana University Press
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Cognitive disability and its challenge to moral philosophy.
Resource TypeRecommended
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AuthorKittay, E., F., & Carlson, A., L.
Year2010
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PublisherWiley Blackwell
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