Contours of ableism
Subtitle: the production of disability and abledness
By: Fiona Kumari Campbell.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230579286
Subjects: People with disabilities; Disabilities
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Foreword by Professor Dan Goodley * Part I: Cogitating Ableism * The Project of Ableism * Internalized Ableism: The Tyranny Within * Tentative Disability: Mitigation and its Discontents * Love Objects and Transhuman Beasts?: Riding the Technologies * Part II: Spectres of Ableism *The Deaf Trade: Selling the Cochlear Implant * Print Media Representations of the 'Unco-operative' Patient: The Case of Clint Hallam * Disability Matters: Embodiment, Teaching &; title: Standpoint * Pathological Femaleness: Disability Jurisprudence &; title: Ontological Envelopment * Disability Harm &; title: Wrongful Life Torts * Searching for Subjectivity: The Enigma of Devoteeism, Conjoinment and Transableism * Afterword: From Disability Studies to Studies in Ableism? Foreword by Professor Dan Goodley * Part I: Cogitating Ableism * The Project of Ableism * Internalized Ableism: The Tyranny Within * Tentative Disability: Mitigation and its Discontents * Love Objects and Transhuman Beasts?: Riding the Technologies * Part II: Spectres of Ableism *The Deaf Trade: Selling the Cochlear Implant * Print Media Representations of the 'Unco-operative' Patient: The Case of Clint Hallam * Disability Matters: Embodiment, Teaching &; title: Standpoint * Pathological Femaleness: Disability Jurisprudence &; title: Ontological Envelopment * Disability Harm &; title: Wrongful Life Torts * Searching for Subjectivity: The Enigma of Devoteeism, Conjoinment and Transableism * Afterword: From Disability Studies to Studies in Ableism?.