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Soft Words for Strident Times
Author(s) -
Clegg Jennifer
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of policy and practice in intellectual disabilities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.592
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1741-1130
pISSN - 1741-1122
DOI - 10.1111/jppi.12308
Subject(s) - eugenics , quality (philosophy) , psychology , quality of life (healthcare) , social psychology , sociology , epistemology , political science , law , psychotherapist , philosophy
This commentary considers what the three different issues that the authors combine have in common, what the evidence is for them, and social science research that reveals the complexity of conversations between doctors and patients about serious health conditions. It examines their implicit claim that there are no questions to answer about the quality of life experienced by people with all types of ID and their families, and what labelling these three issues as “eugenics” is likely to achieve.