Cargando…

Contours of ableism : the production of disability and abledness /

"Presenting a cartographic journey into the world of the production(s) of disability, this book examines embodiment, transhumanism, subjectivity, technology and jurisprudence. It concerns matters of order/disorder and the normal and pathological, and explores the way stories about wholeness, he...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Campbell, Fiona Kumari, 1963- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Basingstoke, UK : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Project of Ableism
  • Internalized ableism: the tyranny within
  • Tentative disability: mitigation and its discontents
  • Love objects and transhuman beasts?: riding the technologies
  • The deaf trade: selling the cochlear implant
  • Print media representations of the 'unco-operative' patient: The case of Clint Hallam
  • Disability matters: embodiment, teaching & standpoint
  • Pathological femaleness: disability jurisprudence & ontological envelopment
  • Disability harm & wrongful life torts
  • Searching for subjectivity: the enigma of devoteeism, conjoinment and transableism
  • Afterword: From disability studies to studies in ableism?