Disability Ethics Bibliography

 

The following sources do not necessarily reflect the Center's position or values. These sources, however, are excellent resources for familiarizing oneself with the all sides of the issue.

  • Armstrong, Felicity, and Len Barton, eds. Disability, Human Rights and Education: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Philadelphia: Taylor and Francis, 1999.
  • Baird, Robert M., Stuart Rosenbaum, and S. Kay Toombs. Disability: The Social, Political, and Ethical Debate. Amherst, NY: Promethus, 2009.
  • Bishop, Marilyn. Religion and Disability: Essays in Scripture, Theology, and Ethics. Kansas City, MO: Sheed & Ward, 1995.
  • Buchannan, Allen, Dan Brock, Norman Daniels, and Daniel Wikler. From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
  • Byrne, Peter. Philosophical and Ethical Problems in Mental Handicap. New York: Palgrave, 2000.
  • Charlton, James I. Nothing about Us without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
  • Figueroa, Robert, and Sandra Harding, eds. Science and Other Cultures: Issues in Philosophies of Science and Technology. New York: Routledge, 2003.
  • Glover, Jonathan. Choosing Children: Genes, Disability, and Design. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
  • Goggin, Gerard. Disability in Australia: Exposing a Social Apartheid. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2004.
  • Hauerwas, Stanley. Suffering Presence: Theological Reflections on Medicine, the Mentally Handicapped, and the Church. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame, 1986.
  • McLean, Sheila. Impairment and Disability: Law and Ethics at the Beginning and End of Life. New York; Routledge, 2007.
  • Oullette, Alicia. Bioethics and Disability: Toward a Disability-Conscious Bioethics. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
  • Parens, Erik, and Adrienne Asch, eds. Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2000.
  • Reinders, Hans S. The Future of the Disabled in Liberal Society: An Ethical Analysis. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2000.
  • Reynolds, Thomas E. Vulnerable Communion: A Theology of Disability and Hospitality. Grand Rapids: Brazos, 2008.
  • Swain, John, Sally French, and Colin Cameron. Controversial Issues in a Disabling Society. Philadelphia; Open University Press, 2003.
  • Swinton, John, and Brian Brock, eds. Theology, Disability and the New Genetics: Why Science Needs the Church. New York; T&T Clark, 2007.
  • Tada, Joni Eareckson, and Nigel M. de S. Cameron. How to Be a Christian in a Brave New World. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2006.
  • Tada, Joni Eareckson, Steve Bundy, Kathy McReynolds, and Pat Verbal, eds. Beyond Suffering: A Christian View on Disability Ministry. Agoura Hills, CA: Christian Institute on Disability, Joni & Friends International, 2011.
  • Wasserman, David, Jerome Bickenbach, and Robert Wachbroit, eds. Quality of Life and Human Difference: Genetic Testing, Health Care, and Disability. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
  • Yong, Amos. Theology and Down Syndrome: Reimagining Disability in Late Modernity. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2007.

Updated November 2011