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When the political becomes personal: Reflecting on disability bioethics
Author(s) -
Shakespeare Tom
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
bioethics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.494
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1467-8519
pISSN - 0269-9702
DOI - 10.1111/bioe.12668
Subject(s) - bioethics , politics , connection (principal bundle) , sociology , epistemology , political science , social psychology , psychology , law , philosophy , structural engineering , engineering
A discussion of the connection between activism and academia in bioethics, highlighting the author’s own trajectory, exploring the extent to which academics have an obliation to be ‘judges’ rather than ‘barristers’ (as explored by Jonathan Haidt) and asking questions about the relationship of disability to positions in bioethics.