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Author:   John Swinton (University of Aberdeen, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.10cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 21.20cm
Weight:   0.570kg
ISBN:  

9780789027214

ISBN 10:   0789027216
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   07 June 2005
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Foreword: A Doctor’s Debt to Stanley Hauerwas (David L. Coulter) Introduction: Hauerwas on Disability (John Swinton) Chapter 1. Timeful Friends: Living with the Handicapped (Stanley Hauerwas) Response: The Need of Strangers (Jean Vanier) Response: Making Yourself Useful (Michael Bérubé) Chapter 2. Community and Diversity: The Tyranny of Normality (Stanley Hauerwas) Response: Whose Table for The Retarded? (John O’Brien) Chapter 3. The Church and the Mentally Handicapped: A Continuing Challenge to the Imagination (Stanley Hauerwas) Response: The Limits of Our Practices (Jeff McNair) Chapter 4. The Gesture of a Truthful Story (Stanley Hauerwas) Response: On Discovering Saints and Making a Difference (Aileen Barclay) Chapter 5. Suffering the Retarded: Should We Prevent Retardation? (Stanley Hauerwas) Response: Thoughts on Suffering: A Parent’s View (Hazel Morgan) Chapter 6. Must a Patient Be a Person to Be a Patient? Or, My Uncle Charlie Is Not Much of a Person But He Is Still My Uncle Charlie (Stanley Hauerwas) Response: The Ground and Grammar of Personhood (Ray Anderson) Chapter 7. The Retarded and the Criteria for the Human (Stanley Hauerwas) Chapter 8. Suffering, Medical Ethics, and the Retarded Child (Stanley Hauerwas) A Response to Chapters Seven and Eight: Retarded Children or Retarded Ethics? (Christopher Newell) Chapter 9. Having and Learning to Care for Retarded Children (Stanley Hauerwas) Chapter 10. The Retarded, Society, and the Family: The Dilemma of Care (Stanley Hauerwas) Response to Chapters 9 and 10: On the Significance of Caring (Linda L. Treloar) Chapter 11. Reflection on Dependency: A Response to Responses to My Essays on Disability (Stanley Hauerwas) Index Reference Notes Included

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