The disability ethics initiative was established in 1999 to promote an examination of values and ethics that affect our social understanding of and our response to disability. The goals of the initiative are: (1) to encourage productive dialogue between disability ethicists and other ethicists; (2) to ensure the perspectives of people with disabilities are adequately considered in ethical healthcare delivery, and (3) to encourage holistic approaches to disability ethics that are not constrained by traditional boundaries of health, medical. or bioethics.