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Rethinking Mental Health Reform: A case for reviving community-based care

Bill of Health

Understanding the present: the complicated ethics of civil commitment These failures significantly complicate the ethics of civil commitment. Charting an ethical path forward Ethical remedies for such coercive excess can be found in a return to the Olmstead decision’s “integration mandate” based in the ADA.

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Injustice Anywhere: The Need to Decouple Disability and Productivity

Bill of Health

Current calls for attention to a disability bioethics or a disability epistemology have heralded not only highlighting, but also actively promoting, the qualities, leadership skills, and valuable character traits associated with surviving and thriving in a world fundamentally not set up for one’s own needs.

Bioethics 352
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Re-Imagining Work in the Post-Pandemic Era: An Arendtian Lens

Bill of Health

Presenting an impairment or even a difference — even one that can be easily accommodated or that bears no relationship to performing on the job — still makes the person, unfortunately in the eyes of many, ‘disabled’ and less productive. On the other hand, this disclosure can induce unjustified assumptions and discrimination.

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