Contours of Ableism The Production of Disability and Abledness

by Kumari Campbell, Fiona

• ISBN13: 9780230579286
• ISBN10: 0230579280
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.

Author Biography

FIONA KUMARI CAMPBELL is Senior Lecturer in Disability Studies, School of Human Services & Social Work, Griffith University, Australia and Adjunct Professor in Disability Studies, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, and a person with disability. She writes on issues related to disability philosophy, desire, law and technology, and her current research encompasses South Asian approaches to disability.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. viii
Foreword by Professor	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Cogitating Ableism
The Project of Ableism	p. 3
Internalised Ableism: The Tyranny Within	p. 16
Tentative Disability-Mitigation and Its Discontents	p. 30
Love Objects and Transhuman Beasts? Riding the Technologies	p. 45
Spectres of Ableism
The Deaf Trade: Selling the Cochlear Implant	p. 79
Print Media Representations of the 'Uncooperative' Disabled Patient: The Case of Clint Hallam	p. 97
Disability Matters: Embodiment, Teaching and Standpoint	p. 115
Pathological Femaleness: Disability Jurisprudence and Ontological Envelopment	p. 130
Disability Harm and Wrongful Life Torts	p. 146
Searching for Subjectivity: The Enigma of Devoteeism, Conjoinment and Transableism	p. 160
Afterword: From Disability Studies to Studies in Ableism	p. 196
Notes	p. 199
Bibliography	p. 205
Case Index	p. 228
Index	p. 229
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