Curative Violence : Rehabilitating Disability, Gender, and Sexuality in Modern Korea /

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Taking disability theory out of a Western context, Eunjung Kim questions the assumptions that treating disabilities with cure represents a universal good by examining the manifestations of violence that accompany medical and nonmedical cures in twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Korea.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kim, Eunjung, 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sociology of disability.
People with disabilities > Rehabilitation.
People with disabilities in mass media.
People with disabilities > Care.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
Personnes handicapees dans les medias.
Handicap > Coree du Sud > Aspect sociologique.
Personnes handicapees > Soins > Coree du Sud.
Sociology of disability > Korea (South)
People with disabilities > Rehabilitation > Korea (South)
People with disabilities > Care > Korea (South)
Korea (South)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Description
Summary:Taking disability theory out of a Western context, Eunjung Kim questions the assumptions that treating disabilities with cure represents a universal good by examining the manifestations of violence that accompany medical and nonmedical cures in twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Korea.
Physical Description:1 online resource (312 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780822373513

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