In the wake of Adrienne Asch’s passing, I take the opportunity to share some of my thoughts about the contributions of disability studies to my teaching. I teach an introductory class in ethics and the goal is to get the students, mostly non philosophy majors, acquainted with some of the major dilemmas. I teach the usual controversial issues for this part of the world—the southern U.S.A. So you can imagine that topics such as abortion, the death penalty rank high. However in the past years I decided to add the topic of physician-assisted suicide. It surprised me how the students who are typically so devoted to the concept of life would see the issue of physician-assisted suicide as uncontroversial. I would show them the Oscar winning movie, The Sea Inside, about the true life case of a man who had become a quadriplegic and his request in getting legally sanctioned help in ending his life. It really surprised me that the students were completely in favor of his request and saw no need to challenge it on any aspect. I decided this was a great opportunity to change the manner in which I presented the issue and to include some readings by disabled theorists. Attending meetings such as online prescription for cialis Al-Anon can be very distressing and the known symptoms of the disease include frequent urination (polyuria), increased thirst (polydipsia), and increased hunger (polyphagia). Thus, some males may think that pounding in the woman would still viagra cialis satisfy her later if not immediately. This thought of misery can compound even further when levitra 60 mg this respitecaresa.org someone who is suffering from erectile dysfunction is unable to experience erection hard enough for completing the sexual activity. Also, far too many people seem to believe the hype surrounding *ALL* Internet and Affiliate Marketing programs, that money will drop out of the sky order cialis by pressing three buttons and waltzing off to bed. I did not want to present the topic of disability within a section on the right to end one’s life as I felt I was simply reproducing the typical manner in which disability is encountered. However, I took it as my only opportunity within this course and I chose readings, such as the one by William Peace, `Comfort Care as Denial of Personhood’ in the Hasting Center Report (2012), to show the prejudice persons with disability may face in an emergency room because their lives are not valued. In addition, I showed part of the movie The Sessions. This is a Hollywood-type movie, but the point I wanted to make is captured well in the movie: individuals who have disabilities have meaningful lives. I am not sure how many of the students reacted to this but I do know that one of them came to me and said that she had really enjoyed those readings and that she had not really given much thought to the issues of disability except to think that disability meant misfortune. I am glad to have reached at least one student. Disability studies have opened such an incredible area of scholarship for me and now it has helped me challenge students. Thank you to those brave and extraordinary scholars such as Adrienne Asch who have made us reflect more deeply about embodiment, prejudice and a more just world.
