Disabled People and the Right to Life : The Protection and Violation of Disabled People’s Most Basic Human Rights (Paperback)

1. Introduction / Luke Clements and Janet Read 2. Life, disability and the pursuit of human rights/ Luke Clements and Janet Read 3. Cost-effectiveness analysis, preferences and the right to a life with disabilities / David Wasserman, Adrienne Asch and Jerome Bickenbach 4. Persons with disability and the right to life in Australia / Rosemary Kayess and Phillip French 5. Disabled people and the right to life: the protection and violation of disabled people’s most basic human right / Baroness Jane Campbell 6. Disability rights and resuscitation: Do Not Attempt Reconciliation? / Tom Shakespeare and Bryan Vernon 7. Disability, human rights and re-distributive justice / Shaheen Sardar Ali 8. Human rights aspects of deaths of institutionalised people with disabilities in Europe / Jan Fiala and Oliver Lewis 9. The right to life and the selective non-treatment of disabled babies and young children / Janet Read and Luke Clements 10. End-of-life decisions in neonatology and the right to life of the disabled newborn child: impressions from the Netherlands / Jozef H.H.M. Dorscheidt 11. The right to life and the right to health of children with disabilities before courts: some Latin American examples / Christian Courtis 12. Access to care and the right to life of disabled children in Bulgaria / Boika Rechel 13. Unheard voices: human rights issues of disabled youngsters from Romanian institutions / Mirela Saupe 14. The classification of newborn children: consequences for survival / Jonina Einarsdottir