Contours of ableism : the production of disability and abledness /
Campbell, Fiona Kumari,1963-
New York : Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.
"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, health, enhancement and perfection are told"--Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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, health, enhancement and perfection are told"--Provided by publisher.
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?
People with disabilities.
Disabilities.