HLST 4010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Leonard Arthur, Inherent Jurisdiction, Jeff Lorber
9 Dec 2020
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Week 7 reading- demonstrably awful: the right to life and the selective non-treatment of disabled babies and young children: read and clements. Janet read and luke clements, demonstrably awful: the right to life and the. Selective non-treatment of disabled babies and young children, chapter 8 in luke. Disabled people and the right to life: the protection and violation of disabled people"s most basic human rights (london: routledge, Introduction: this paper seeks to review the cases in a different way, viewing them primarily as a litmus test of the then contemporary attitudes towards disabled people. An analysis of relevant features of that contemporary context provides indicators as to why the cases were brought. In turn, the cases themselves together with the associated press coverage and public debate may be regarded as an arena where both dominant attitudes towards disabled people and emerging challenges to such attitudes are played out.
