Re: Vegatative states and neuroscience: From Hari Kumar

["Perelman, Michael" <MPerelman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Doug wrote:
"One of the key areas for the disabled rights movement is cognitive issues. To be clear when I use this term, cognitive, many disabled people do not use
it in broad context, but to mean a specific area of disability.  Cognitive for me is involvement of the brain in a disability.  Schizophrenia,
developmental disability, blindness, dyslexia and so forth have cognitive issues.  This article in the NY Times goes to the heart of the physician
assisted suicide movement.  The disability rights movement takes a strong stand on the rights of disabled people, and contra to philosophers like
Peter Singer of Princeton advocate euthanasia for a variety of disabled people.  I do not think the medical profession is the place for these issues
to be fought out, i.e. this is a social issue, and a class issue.  However, in some cases in a practical sense this is where the debate is currently
waged as well as by election for the right to suicide.  "

Question: Hi Doug: I would not disagree with most of your premises. But please explain the "class" issue here.
Hari Kumar


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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929