Vulnerable Bodies - New Directions in Disability Studies (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)

This book offers new direction in disability studies, by integrating the medical and social model of disability. The first aim is to provide an integral approach to thinking about impairment and disability through the integrative lens of being vulnerable. The second aim is to transcend the normative trap which impairment and disability debate finds itself locked in. Disability debate is trapped in a normative struggle to escape oppressive norms. Either, by legitimizing the desire to be free from impairment, where a legitimization identity is promoted through the medical model. Or, by resisting discriminative social norms, where the desire is to be free from oppressive social barriers that exist on top of having impairment. Identifying with one's vulnerability, or embodied uncertainty, allows for the possibility of forging meaning and building new identity. It allows freedom to express embodied difference, rather than to transform or defend it.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Pivot
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2019
First published:	2019
Authors:	Floris Tomasini
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	87
Edition:	1st ed. 2019
ISBN-13:	978-0-230-29983-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Bio-ethics Books > Philosophy > General Promotions
LSN:	0-230-29983-0
Barcode:	9780230299832

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