Elizabeth Lightfoot
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- April 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195173727
- eISBN:
- 9780199893218
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195173727.003.0005
- Subject:
- Social Work, Health and Mental Health
Developmental disabilities are a diverse group of physical and/or mental impairments that begin anytime up until 22 years of age and are usually life-long. Development disabilities limit a person's ...
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Developmental disabilities are a diverse group of physical and/or mental impairments that begin anytime up until 22 years of age and are usually life-long. Development disabilities limit a person's capacity to engage in major life activities such as independent living, mobility, language, learning, working, decision making, and self-care. Common diagnoses that often fall under the definition of developmental disabilities include intellectual disability, autism, cerebral palsy, hearing impairment, vision impairment, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). There are currently about 4 million people in the United States with a developmental disability. This chapter primarily focuses on issues faced by older people with intellectual disabilities.Less
Developmental disabilities are a diverse group of physical and/or mental impairments that begin anytime up until 22 years of age and are usually life-long. Development disabilities limit a person's capacity to engage in major life activities such as independent living, mobility, language, learning, working, decision making, and self-care. Common diagnoses that often fall under the definition of developmental disabilities include intellectual disability, autism, cerebral palsy, hearing impairment, vision impairment, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). There are currently about 4 million people in the United States with a developmental disability. This chapter primarily focuses on issues faced by older people with intellectual disabilities.
Philip Mccallion
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- April 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195173727
- eISBN:
- 9780199893218
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195173727.003.0030
- Subject:
- Social Work, Health and Mental Health
The success that the aging of persons with developmental disabilities (DD) represents also means challenges for families who must provide longer term and new forms of care. In addition, traditional ...
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The success that the aging of persons with developmental disabilities (DD) represents also means challenges for families who must provide longer term and new forms of care. In addition, traditional views of family caregivers, particularly older parents as caregivers, must be expanded to include other relatives, such as siblings and grandparents. The aging of persons with DD and their caregivers requires all social workers to renew perspectives, tools, and approaches. The increasing complexity of life history and experiences, health needs, and life transitions also require that a holistic and multidisciplinary perspective be embraced. Drawing on the related research and practice literatures, this chapter outlines key demographic issues for adults with DD and their families, and describes changing family caregiving constellations. Suggestions are offered for the assessment and management of life transitions, and of grief and bereavement issues that are increasingly a feature of the older years of both caregivers and persons with DD.Less
The success that the aging of persons with developmental disabilities (DD) represents also means challenges for families who must provide longer term and new forms of care. In addition, traditional views of family caregivers, particularly older parents as caregivers, must be expanded to include other relatives, such as siblings and grandparents. The aging of persons with DD and their caregivers requires all social workers to renew perspectives, tools, and approaches. The increasing complexity of life history and experiences, health needs, and life transitions also require that a holistic and multidisciplinary perspective be embraced. Drawing on the related research and practice literatures, this chapter outlines key demographic issues for adults with DD and their families, and describes changing family caregiving constellations. Suggestions are offered for the assessment and management of life transitions, and of grief and bereavement issues that are increasingly a feature of the older years of both caregivers and persons with DD.
Mayo Moran
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199247820
- eISBN:
- 9780191714788
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199247820.003.0005
- Subject:
- Law, Philosophy of Law
Court cases involving children reveal the extent to which the reasonable person standard, at least in that context, turns on conceptions of what is normal behaviour and what is natural. The history ...
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Court cases involving children reveal the extent to which the reasonable person standard, at least in that context, turns on conceptions of what is normal behaviour and what is natural. The history of assumptions about who is ‘normal’ is itself cause for concern. The idea of the normal and the rhetoric of common sense work together to give content to and justify the operation of the reasonable person standard. By tracing out the details of this complicated relationship between the reasonable, the normal, and common sense, this chapter explains how the reasonable person and perhaps the operation of the objective standard more generally may raise serious equality concerns. The role accorded to custom in determinations of negligence is perhaps the most straightforward example of the relationship of normal or ordinary behaviour to determinations of reasonableness. The concept of ordinary prudence and developmental disability are also discussed.Less
Court cases involving children reveal the extent to which the reasonable person standard, at least in that context, turns on conceptions of what is normal behaviour and what is natural. The history of assumptions about who is ‘normal’ is itself cause for concern. The idea of the normal and the rhetoric of common sense work together to give content to and justify the operation of the reasonable person standard. By tracing out the details of this complicated relationship between the reasonable, the normal, and common sense, this chapter explains how the reasonable person and perhaps the operation of the objective standard more generally may raise serious equality concerns. The role accorded to custom in determinations of negligence is perhaps the most straightforward example of the relationship of normal or ordinary behaviour to determinations of reasonableness. The concept of ordinary prudence and developmental disability are also discussed.
Elise S. Sobol
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199754397
- eISBN:
- 9780190268190
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199754397.003.0006
- Subject:
- Music, Psychology of Music
This chapter examines research about the music learning processes of individuals with autism and developmental disabilities. Two central questions are explored: What should music practitioners and ...
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This chapter examines research about the music learning processes of individuals with autism and developmental disabilities. Two central questions are explored: What should music practitioners and researchers know to optimize their understanding of the students with autism or learning disabilities? In particular, how can they show that music education can help those students to make adequate yearly progress? The chapter reviews designated categories in special education in order to place autism and developmental disabilities in context. In music class, a student with autism and developmental disabilities learns what he can do, which in turn enhances self-esteem and feelings of accomplishment.Less
This chapter examines research about the music learning processes of individuals with autism and developmental disabilities. Two central questions are explored: What should music practitioners and researchers know to optimize their understanding of the students with autism or learning disabilities? In particular, how can they show that music education can help those students to make adequate yearly progress? The chapter reviews designated categories in special education in order to place autism and developmental disabilities in context. In music class, a student with autism and developmental disabilities learns what he can do, which in turn enhances self-esteem and feelings of accomplishment.
Kim Steele and Sherry Ahrentzen
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781447307976
- eISBN:
- 9781447303817
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447307976.001.0001
- Subject:
- Social Work, Health and Mental Health
At Home with Autism introduces readers to conditions and aspirations of adults on the autism spectrum that demand a new approach to how we provide, locate, design and develop homes in which they ...
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At Home with Autism introduces readers to conditions and aspirations of adults on the autism spectrum that demand a new approach to how we provide, locate, design and develop homes in which they live. The book argues that there is no singular stellar residential model, just as there is no singular prototype of autism. Grounded in an extensive array of research sources, the book identifies resident-focused quality of life goals, and profiles design guidelines directed to those goals. The book implores those involved in housing design, production and policy to expand their exposure to what is possible, what is desirable, and to direct their efforts towards expanding residential choices for those on the spectrum.Less
At Home with Autism introduces readers to conditions and aspirations of adults on the autism spectrum that demand a new approach to how we provide, locate, design and develop homes in which they live. The book argues that there is no singular stellar residential model, just as there is no singular prototype of autism. Grounded in an extensive array of research sources, the book identifies resident-focused quality of life goals, and profiles design guidelines directed to those goals. The book implores those involved in housing design, production and policy to expand their exposure to what is possible, what is desirable, and to direct their efforts towards expanding residential choices for those on the spectrum.
Diane Spear, Harriet Cloud, Shirley W. Ekvall, Paula Cushing, Linda Hicks, and Julia Wahoff
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780199398911
- eISBN:
- 9780199398942
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199398911.003.0024
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health
This chapter discusses feeding and eating problems of the child or adult with intellectual and developmental disabilities and special health care needs, including normal development of feeding, gross ...
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This chapter discusses feeding and eating problems of the child or adult with intellectual and developmental disabilities and special health care needs, including normal development of feeding, gross motor development, behavioral aspects of feeding and eating, oral-motor difficulties and swallowing problems, problems with sensory processes or the feeding process, assessment of feeding and eating problems, assessment of oral-motor problems, assessment of positioning problems, behavioral and environmental problems, factors to consider in the nutritional assessment and intervention, tube feeding, self-feeding, and follow-up care.Less
This chapter discusses feeding and eating problems of the child or adult with intellectual and developmental disabilities and special health care needs, including normal development of feeding, gross motor development, behavioral aspects of feeding and eating, oral-motor difficulties and swallowing problems, problems with sensory processes or the feeding process, assessment of feeding and eating problems, assessment of oral-motor problems, assessment of positioning problems, behavioral and environmental problems, factors to consider in the nutritional assessment and intervention, tube feeding, self-feeding, and follow-up care.
Mian Wang and George H. S. Singer
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199743070
- eISBN:
- 9780190494414
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199743070.001.0001
- Subject:
- Social Work, Health and Mental Health
This book reviews the evidence on interventions for families of individuals with developmental disabilities, in particular intellectual disability and autism. It focuses on families of children above ...
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This book reviews the evidence on interventions for families of individuals with developmental disabilities, in particular intellectual disability and autism. It focuses on families of children above preschool age and into adulthood. This population of families has been the focus of social policy and research on professional practices in the United States and other advanced nations. With growing efforts to support these families, guidance based on substantive evidence is needed to move ahead. The book presents both narrative and meta-analytic syntheses of this large body of research in order to evaluate which interventions meet contemporary standards for categorizing them as unprovenl, promising, or established as evidence-based practices. The research is presented in the context of contemporary social policy and practices aimed at maximizing the development of children with disabilities while increasing the quality of life of their families. The criteria and procedures followed for locating, reviewing, evaluating, and categorizing the studies are presented. Individual chapters focus on several different schools of practice including group psychoeducational interventions, behavioral parent training, multiple component interventions, supportive interventions for families of children with autism, home- and school-based practices, self-help groups, and advocacy programs. These practices are categorized as either unproven, promising, or established.Less
This book reviews the evidence on interventions for families of individuals with developmental disabilities, in particular intellectual disability and autism. It focuses on families of children above preschool age and into adulthood. This population of families has been the focus of social policy and research on professional practices in the United States and other advanced nations. With growing efforts to support these families, guidance based on substantive evidence is needed to move ahead. The book presents both narrative and meta-analytic syntheses of this large body of research in order to evaluate which interventions meet contemporary standards for categorizing them as unprovenl, promising, or established as evidence-based practices. The research is presented in the context of contemporary social policy and practices aimed at maximizing the development of children with disabilities while increasing the quality of life of their families. The criteria and procedures followed for locating, reviewing, evaluating, and categorizing the studies are presented. Individual chapters focus on several different schools of practice including group psychoeducational interventions, behavioral parent training, multiple component interventions, supportive interventions for families of children with autism, home- and school-based practices, self-help groups, and advocacy programs. These practices are categorized as either unproven, promising, or established.
Jack Levinson
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816650811
- eISBN:
- 9781452946054
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816650811.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Health, Illness, and Medicine
Group homes emerged in the United States in the 1970s as a solution to the failure of the large institutions that, for more than a century, segregated and abused people with intellectual and ...
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Group homes emerged in the United States in the 1970s as a solution to the failure of the large institutions that, for more than a century, segregated and abused people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Yet community services have not, for the most part, delivered on the promises of rights, self-determination, and integration made more than thirty years ago, and critics predominantly portray group homes simply as settings of social control. This book presents an ethnography of a New York City group home based on more than a year of field research. The text shows how the group home needs the knowledgeable and voluntary participation of residents and counselors alike. The group home is an actual workplace for counselors, but for residents group home work involves working on themselves to become more autonomous. The book reveals that rather than being seen as the antithesis of freedom, the group home must be understood as representing the fundamental dilemmas between authority and the individual in contemporary liberal societies. No longer inmates but citizens, these people who are presumed—rightly or wrongly—to lack the capacity for freedom to actually govern themselves. The text demonstrates that the group home depends on the very capacities for independence and individuality it cultivates in the residents. At the same time, it addresses the complex relationship between services and social control in the history of intellectual and developmental disabilities, interrogating broader social service policies and the role of clinical practice in the community.Less
Group homes emerged in the United States in the 1970s as a solution to the failure of the large institutions that, for more than a century, segregated and abused people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Yet community services have not, for the most part, delivered on the promises of rights, self-determination, and integration made more than thirty years ago, and critics predominantly portray group homes simply as settings of social control. This book presents an ethnography of a New York City group home based on more than a year of field research. The text shows how the group home needs the knowledgeable and voluntary participation of residents and counselors alike. The group home is an actual workplace for counselors, but for residents group home work involves working on themselves to become more autonomous. The book reveals that rather than being seen as the antithesis of freedom, the group home must be understood as representing the fundamental dilemmas between authority and the individual in contemporary liberal societies. No longer inmates but citizens, these people who are presumed—rightly or wrongly—to lack the capacity for freedom to actually govern themselves. The text demonstrates that the group home depends on the very capacities for independence and individuality it cultivates in the residents. At the same time, it addresses the complex relationship between services and social control in the history of intellectual and developmental disabilities, interrogating broader social service policies and the role of clinical practice in the community.
Jack Levinson
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816650811
- eISBN:
- 9781452946054
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816650811.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Health, Illness, and Medicine
This chapter presents a brief account of the history of institutionalization. After World War II, institutionalization was the professional consensus about how to deal with people diagnosed with ...
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This chapter presents a brief account of the history of institutionalization. After World War II, institutionalization was the professional consensus about how to deal with people diagnosed with intellectual and other developmental disabilities. Physicians advised parents to provide custodial care, which was too great a burden at home and held potentially serious consequences for normal siblings. In many institutions, visits were prohibited or limited for a period following admission so as not to exacerbate the difficulties of adjustment for both families and patients. Within this context, some parent groups centered on developing larger role for families in the care of their institutionalized children. By 1960, the initial postwar efforts to broaden existing services incorporated the aim of reforming conditions in institutions.Less
This chapter presents a brief account of the history of institutionalization. After World War II, institutionalization was the professional consensus about how to deal with people diagnosed with intellectual and other developmental disabilities. Physicians advised parents to provide custodial care, which was too great a burden at home and held potentially serious consequences for normal siblings. In many institutions, visits were prohibited or limited for a period following admission so as not to exacerbate the difficulties of adjustment for both families and patients. Within this context, some parent groups centered on developing larger role for families in the care of their institutionalized children. By 1960, the initial postwar efforts to broaden existing services incorporated the aim of reforming conditions in institutions.
George H. S. Singer and Mian Wang
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199743070
- eISBN:
- 9780190494414
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199743070.003.0001
- Subject:
- Social Work, Health and Mental Health
This chapter describes the inclusion criteria for a body of research on ways of supporting parents of children with intellectual disabilities and autism. The standards for determining whether a ...
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This chapter describes the inclusion criteria for a body of research on ways of supporting parents of children with intellectual disabilities and autism. The standards for determining whether a practice is an evidence-based practice (EBP) are presented along with the review procedures followed by the authors. The use of meta-analysis for synthesizing group studies is explained. The context for family support interventions is presented, including recent understanding of positive family adaptation and the shift away from a pathological view of families to an understanding that support programs can facilitate adaptation in improving family quality of life. Studies are positioned in a larger service system.Less
This chapter describes the inclusion criteria for a body of research on ways of supporting parents of children with intellectual disabilities and autism. The standards for determining whether a practice is an evidence-based practice (EBP) are presented along with the review procedures followed by the authors. The use of meta-analysis for synthesizing group studies is explained. The context for family support interventions is presented, including recent understanding of positive family adaptation and the shift away from a pathological view of families to an understanding that support programs can facilitate adaptation in improving family quality of life. Studies are positioned in a larger service system.
Shirley W. Ekvall and Valli K. Ekvall (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780199398911
- eISBN:
- 9780199398942
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199398911.001.0001
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health
This textbook explores nutritional aspects of chronic diseases, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and inborn errors of metabolism or inherited metabolic disorders. Each chapter describes ...
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This textbook explores nutritional aspects of chronic diseases, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and inborn errors of metabolism or inherited metabolic disorders. Each chapter describes the current status of research on the role of nutrition in these disorders and helps translate it into clinical practice. The main focus is on treatment, with the goal of helping children and adults with special health care needs to develop their potential. Nutritional assessment and prevention techniques are addressed for persons of all ages. All disease chapters are organized to cover biochemical and clinical abnormalities, techniques used in evaluation or diagnosis, nutritional treatment or management, and follow-up procedures. Part I stresses preventive techniques used in assessing and averting diseases and other problems in standard nutrition. Resource materials and quality assurance standards also are addressed. Part II deals with nutrition in the management of chronic diseases and intellectual and developmental disabilities. Part III describes inherited metabolic disorders or inborn errors of metabolism and provides methods of diagnosis and nutritional therapy.Less
This textbook explores nutritional aspects of chronic diseases, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and inborn errors of metabolism or inherited metabolic disorders. Each chapter describes the current status of research on the role of nutrition in these disorders and helps translate it into clinical practice. The main focus is on treatment, with the goal of helping children and adults with special health care needs to develop their potential. Nutritional assessment and prevention techniques are addressed for persons of all ages. All disease chapters are organized to cover biochemical and clinical abnormalities, techniques used in evaluation or diagnosis, nutritional treatment or management, and follow-up procedures. Part I stresses preventive techniques used in assessing and averting diseases and other problems in standard nutrition. Resource materials and quality assurance standards also are addressed. Part II deals with nutrition in the management of chronic diseases and intellectual and developmental disabilities. Part III describes inherited metabolic disorders or inborn errors of metabolism and provides methods of diagnosis and nutritional therapy.
Dan McKanan
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780520290051
- eISBN:
- 9780520964389
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520290051.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, World Religions
Anthroposophy’s contribution to environmentalism is evident not only in biodynamic agriculture and green banking but also across the spectrum of anthroposophical initiatives. One of the most holistic ...
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Anthroposophy’s contribution to environmentalism is evident not only in biodynamic agriculture and green banking but also across the spectrum of anthroposophical initiatives. One of the most holistic movements inspired by Steiner is the international network of Camphill communities, where people with and without developmental disabilities share daily life and work, often in agricultural settings. Camphill communities often function as innovative ecovillages, embracing carbon-neutral energy systems, biological wastewater treatment, and a variety of social enterprises. By linking concern with the natural world to concern for human health and well-being, they challenge the environmental movement to broaden its vision of ecology. Less
Anthroposophy’s contribution to environmentalism is evident not only in biodynamic agriculture and green banking but also across the spectrum of anthroposophical initiatives. One of the most holistic movements inspired by Steiner is the international network of Camphill communities, where people with and without developmental disabilities share daily life and work, often in agricultural settings. Camphill communities often function as innovative ecovillages, embracing carbon-neutral energy systems, biological wastewater treatment, and a variety of social enterprises. By linking concern with the natural world to concern for human health and well-being, they challenge the environmental movement to broaden its vision of ecology.
D. Christopher Gabbard
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781526125316
- eISBN:
- 9781526136213
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781526125316.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, Social History
While John Locke’s impact on Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, an eighteenth-century satire, is a well-worn topic of scholarly discussion, Gulliver as the butt of a satire concerning an important ...
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While John Locke’s impact on Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, an eighteenth-century satire, is a well-worn topic of scholarly discussion, Gulliver as the butt of a satire concerning an important aspect of Lockean epistemology has not been considered. In the 1690 Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Locke distinguishes between person (an abstract thinker) and man (an individual with a human shape but little capacity for thought). Locke’s differentiation underwrites the modern concept of intellectual and developmental disabilities. Cognitive ableism is the belief in the superiority of person over man, of the thinker over the individual with less capacity for thought. Approaching Book Four of the Travels from a disability studies perspective, this chapter argues that Locke’s person/man binary broadly comes into play, that the character of Gulliver straddles the person/man divide, and that his characterization parodies Locke’s distinction. Book Four satirizes cognitive ableism through its protagonist, who exhibits an extreme form of it.Less
While John Locke’s impact on Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, an eighteenth-century satire, is a well-worn topic of scholarly discussion, Gulliver as the butt of a satire concerning an important aspect of Lockean epistemology has not been considered. In the 1690 Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Locke distinguishes between person (an abstract thinker) and man (an individual with a human shape but little capacity for thought). Locke’s differentiation underwrites the modern concept of intellectual and developmental disabilities. Cognitive ableism is the belief in the superiority of person over man, of the thinker over the individual with less capacity for thought. Approaching Book Four of the Travels from a disability studies perspective, this chapter argues that Locke’s person/man binary broadly comes into play, that the character of Gulliver straddles the person/man divide, and that his characterization parodies Locke’s distinction. Book Four satirizes cognitive ableism through its protagonist, who exhibits an extreme form of it.
Jason Borenstein, Ayanna Howard, and Alan R. Wagner
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190652951
- eISBN:
- 9780190652982
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190652951.003.0009
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
As robots leave the lab and are deployed in hospital or other healthcare settings, the community of users may become overreliant on and overtrust such technology. Thus, there is a pressing need to ...
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As robots leave the lab and are deployed in hospital or other healthcare settings, the community of users may become overreliant on and overtrust such technology. Thus, there is a pressing need to examine the tendency to overtrust and develop strategies to mitigate the risk to children, parents, and healthcare providers that could occur due to an overreliance on pediatric robotics. To overcome this challenge, we seek to consider the broad range of ethical issues related to the use of robots in pediatric healthcare. This chapter provides an overview of the current state of the art in pediatric robotics, describes relevant ethical issues, and examines the role that overtrust plays in these scenarios. We conclude with suggested strategies to mitigate the relevant risks and describe a framework for the future deployment of robots in the pediatric domain.Less
As robots leave the lab and are deployed in hospital or other healthcare settings, the community of users may become overreliant on and overtrust such technology. Thus, there is a pressing need to examine the tendency to overtrust and develop strategies to mitigate the risk to children, parents, and healthcare providers that could occur due to an overreliance on pediatric robotics. To overcome this challenge, we seek to consider the broad range of ethical issues related to the use of robots in pediatric healthcare. This chapter provides an overview of the current state of the art in pediatric robotics, describes relevant ethical issues, and examines the role that overtrust plays in these scenarios. We conclude with suggested strategies to mitigate the relevant risks and describe a framework for the future deployment of robots in the pediatric domain.
C. F. Goodey
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781526125316
- eISBN:
- 9781526136213
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781526125316.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, Social History
Throughout the English revolution of the mid-seventeenth century, churchmen disagreed about whom to exclude from taking holy communion, who should do the excluding, and how this exclusion should be ...
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Throughout the English revolution of the mid-seventeenth century, churchmen disagreed about whom to exclude from taking holy communion, who should do the excluding, and how this exclusion should be imposed. The constant reclassifications of potential contaminants of church ritual fluctuated in tandem with larger socio-political processes. The ferocity of the debate in the 1650s reflects that decade’s social revolutionary chaos. Near the end of it, the label ‘idiot’ – whatever that may mean – arrives on the list, emerging from a dialectic of disputes which acknowledge the socio-political context. In that particular deployment of the label we start to see an outline of the modern psychological definition.Less
Throughout the English revolution of the mid-seventeenth century, churchmen disagreed about whom to exclude from taking holy communion, who should do the excluding, and how this exclusion should be imposed. The constant reclassifications of potential contaminants of church ritual fluctuated in tandem with larger socio-political processes. The ferocity of the debate in the 1650s reflects that decade’s social revolutionary chaos. Near the end of it, the label ‘idiot’ – whatever that may mean – arrives on the list, emerging from a dialectic of disputes which acknowledge the socio-political context. In that particular deployment of the label we start to see an outline of the modern psychological definition.
