Bianchi, A. & Vogt, J. (Eds.). (2024). Intellectual Disabilities and Autism: Ethics and Practice. Switzerland: Springer Nature. [Intellectual Disabilities and Autism: Ethics and Practice | SpringerLink]
Andria Bianchi is a clinical ethicist at Unity Health Toronto. As part of her role, she provides ethics support to Surrey Place – a developmental services agency working with people with intellectual disabilities and those on the autism spectrum. Janet A. Vogt is a senior research associate and manager at Surrey Place, with experience on their Research Ethics Board, as a co-chair of their Clinical Ethics Committee, and a founder of their Ethics Education working group. She completed her Ph.D. in Nutritional Sciences and M.H.Sc. in Bioethics at the University of Toronto.
This book engages with ethically complex questions relevant to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and/or autistic people, as well as those caring for and working with neurodiverse populations. The book offers a mixture of ethics-related and practice-oriented chapters, including those related to the moral status of people with IDD; consent and capacity; inclusion and empowerment; sexuality, intimacy, romance, and parenting; health care; and ethical responses to ‘behaviours’. For more information about this book, please visit: Intellectual Disabilities and Autism: Ethics and Practice | SpringerLink