Disability Matters, a Scholarly Virginia Based Blog Concerning Bioethics

 

 

 

Dr. Mostert, Director of the doctoral program in special education at Regent University in Virginia Beach, VA, has written numerous research articles, in particular “Useless Eaters” http://www.regent.edu/acad/schedu/uselesseaters, which examines and gives a historical framework of how people with disabilities were treated in World War II that later gave impetus to the mass murder of people before and during the war. This information is particularly useful today as we learn more about people facing unusual health challenges and the world’s response to them.

 

Recently Dr. Mostert blogged about his friend Tony; who is dependent on others to help him daily with all his needs with Motor Neuron Disease but wants to tell others about his life experiences through an autobiography he is writing.  The disease has left him paralyzed except for his facial and lung muscles and he has outlived every patient in hospice for the past six years.   http://disabilitymatters.blogspot.com/search/label/Motor%20Neuron%20Disease

 

 Disability Matters, http://disabilitymatters.blogspot.com/, provides a look at life issues facing the world today, in particular “the cultural response to abortion, euthanasia and bioethical trends impacting people with disabilities.” The latest blogs examines euthanasia in Britain and is a wakeup call to what is beginning to happen here in the United States.

Date Published: 2008-12-03 06:00:00

Section: Health,