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The Ashley Treatment: From the Beginning
Anyone interested, even vaguely, in what all the fuss is about on the Ashley X case, or who wants a review of the facts of the case, might make a start at a new website: http://www.ashleytreatment.inf… more →
What Sorts of People
Gimp, Philosopher, Activist, American
wrasseler wrote 1 week ago: To Whom It May Concern. This is my request under the Telecommunications Act, The Rehab Act, Civil Ri … more →
Full Body Brain Scan
wrasseler wrote 2 weeks ago: Escaping to an outpost is not exile. This is Retreat. Autumn Retreats from Winter. Spring Retreats f … more →
Noh Way
wrasseler wrote 2 weeks ago: Alive is not a neurosensory product. I am Alive. Ecstatic outlines jumping through Time in full view … more →
White Teeth
wrasseler wrote 2 weeks ago: Where I live Everybody Else has White Teeth. My service dog goes with me to the dentist. Everybody E … more →
Self Care
wrasseler wrote 3 weeks ago: Some Things are not Things. Noh One at 800 New Jersey Nurse can tell you. In my state we pay nurses … more →
The Ashley Treatment: From the Beginning
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Spirit of our Time wrote 3 weeks ago: Anyone interested, even vaguely, in what all the fuss is about on the Ashley X case, or who wants a … more →
Cognitive Disability and its Challenge to Moral Philosophy
Spirit of our Time wrote 1 month ago: Readers of the blog who followed our Thinking in Action series of blog posts on the above-named conf … more →
DisRespect interviews with Barb Farlow, Sam Sansalone
Spirit of our Time wrote 1 month ago: I’m re-posting this May 15th post, since Disrespect has just re-run an interview with Sam Sans … more →
A legal article says that courts should take new standards and approve the “Ashley Treatment” because the therapy can be more important than non-person’s fundamental rights
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huahima wrote 2 months ago: I know Peter Singer’s assertion that children with profound mental disabilities are not entitled to … more →
Growth attenuation therapy in Australia?
huahima wrote 2 months ago: A law firm newsletter in Australia has done a detailed legal analysis on growth attenuation for disa … more →
Dr. Diekema's latest paper is AAP statement on withdrawing nutrition from children
huahima wrote 4 months ago: Forgoing Medically Provided Nutrition and Hydration in Children Douglas S. Diekema, MD MPH, Jeffrey … more →
The new growth attenuation paper by Dr. Diekema, Dr. Fost with others
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huahima wrote 6 months ago: I read the full text of the growth-attenuation paper written by Dr. Diekema and Dr. Fost with others … more →
On the new growth attenuation paper
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huahima wrote 6 months ago: Thank you for your wake up call, Spirit of our time, and thank you also for inviting me to write her … more →
WAKE-UP CALL: Growth-Attenuation Therapy: Principles for General Practice
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Spirit of our Time wrote 6 months ago: Below is an abstract from a paper that has just appeared at a prestigious pediatrics journal. It all … more →
With or without an alive day
thewheeledwonder wrote 6 months ago: HBO and James Gandolfini produced a documentary series about young combat vets in physical rehab. It … more →
Cognitive Disability
esposadesam wrote 6 months ago: Note: This was formally known as mental retardation. Cognitive Disability means significantly subave … more →
Listening to Madness
In Darkest Night wrote 7 months ago: Newsweek has run an article (May 2, 2009) on patients classified as “mentally ill” refus … more →
Institutional Dehumanization
dsobsey wrote 7 months ago: Sometimes, in our current discussions of human variation in the age of genetic manipulation, it is e … more →
Schrödinger's Cat & Donation after Cardiac Death
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dsobsey wrote 8 months ago: Quantum Ethics: Schrödinger’s Cat & Donation after Cardiac Death Recent discussions of tra … more →
