Reconsidering Intellectual Disability by Jason Reimer Greig
What are the biomedical boundaries of acceptable treatment for those not able to give informed consent? Who gets to decide when a patient cannot communicate their desires and needs? This book answers these questions.
Reconsidering Intellectual Disability is a challenging work of practical theology by a promising young scholar. . . There is a great deal of wisdom to be gleaned from its argument. * Catholic Books Review *
This is an important book. . . . As our society struggles . . . [Greig] reminds us of the importance of community. * Canadian Mennonite *
Offers a powerful account of how Christian communities can contribute to the transformation of the moral understanding of medicine in the West. * Mennonite Quarterly Review *
Many of those not yet familiar with this field of theological reflection will find Greig's argument challenging, inspirational and perhaps, indeed, life-changing. * Studies in Christian Ethics *
It is a call to reconsider the importance of friendship and servitude in human flourishing while shedding the medical model of intellectual disability as something that is broken. We would do well to reflect on these things as we read this book. * Ethics and Medicine *
This is an important book. . . . As our society struggles . . . [Greig] reminds us of the importance of community. * Canadian Mennonite *
Offers a powerful account of how Christian communities can contribute to the transformation of the moral understanding of medicine in the West. * Mennonite Quarterly Review *
Many of those not yet familiar with this field of theological reflection will find Greig's argument challenging, inspirational and perhaps, indeed, life-changing. * Studies in Christian Ethics *
It is a call to reconsider the importance of friendship and servitude in human flourishing while shedding the medical model of intellectual disability as something that is broken. We would do well to reflect on these things as we read this book. * Ethics and Medicine *
Jason Reimer Greig spent eleven years with L'Arche, an international federation of Christian communities supporting people with intellectual disabilities, as a house assistant and spiritual life coordinator. He holds an MDiv from Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary and is working on his PhD in theology at VU Free University of Amsterdam.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781626162433 |
| ISBN 10 | 1626162433 |
| Title | Reconsidering Intellectual Disability |
| Author | Jason Reimer Greig |
| Series | Moral Traditions Series |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Georgetown University Press |
| Year published | 2015-11-02 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
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