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28Human Self-UnderstandingAmerican Journal of Bioethics 19 (7): 37-38. 2019.Volume 19, Issue 7, July 2019, Page 37-38.
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70The Ashley Treatment: Improving Quality of Life or Infringing Dignity and Rights?Bioethics 30 (3): 141-150. 2015.The ‘Ashley treatment’ has raised much ethical controversy. This article starts from the observation that this debate suffers from a lack of careful philosophical analysis which is essential for an ethical assessment. I focus on two central arguments in the debate, namely an argument defending the treatment based on quality of life and an argument against the treatment based on dignity and rights. My analysis raises doubts as to whether these arguments, as they stand in the debate, are philosoph…Read more
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64Disability and Capability: Exploring the Usefulness of Martha Nussbaum's Capabilities Approach for the UN Disability Rights ConventionJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 41 (4): 768-780. 2013.I explore the usefulness of Martha Nussbaum's capabilities approach in regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The CRPD aims at empowering people with disabilities by granting them a number of civil and political, but also economic, social and cultural rights. Implementing the CRPD will clearly be politically challenging and also very expensive for states. Thus, questions might arise as to whether the requirements set in the CRPD can be justified from an et…Read more
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