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cognition
Medicine and Society
Aug 2015

Medicine’s Valuing of “Normal” Cognitive Ability

Julie M.G. Rogers, PhD, C. Christopher Hook, MD, and Rachel D. Havyer, MD
The medical profession’s valuing of intellectual ability may inadvertently harm people with intellectual or cognitive disabilities who have a different notion of “the good life.”
AMA J Ethics. 2015;17(8):717-726. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2015.17.8.peer1-1508.
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