TY - SER AU - Jarrett, Simon TI - Power and prejudice: the deep roots of failure in medical ethics T2 - Community Living PY - 2021/// KW - Mill, John Stuart, KW - Singer, Peter, KW - INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY KW - ATTITUDES KW - HISTORY KW - EUGENICS KW - COVID-19 KW - HEALTH CARE KW - ETHICS KW - UNITED KINGDOM N2 - In the last issues of this journal, Simon Jarrett examined how COVID exposed the medical profession's antipathy towards people with intellectual disabilities. Now, he asks, where did these attitudes come from - and why? Looks particularly at utilitarianism and its great influence on medical ethics, citing the opinions of John Stuart Mill and Peter Singer ER -