Beschreibung:
This book reconceives disability as a set of social relations and practices, as experienced embodiment, and as an emancipatory movement, as well as a biomedical phenomenon. The author brings new attention to complex ethical questions surrounding disability, looking at not only the biomedical understanding of impairment, but also its cultural representations and social organization.
Chapter 1 Chapter One: Bioethics and Embodied Difference Chapter 2 Chapter Two: Conceptualizing Disability Chapter 3 Chapter Three: Exploring Moral Understandings Chapter 4 Chapter Four: Different by Choice? Chapter 5 Chapter Five: Thinking Through the Variant Body Chapter 6 Chapter Six: Narratives of Disability: Models and Mentors Chapter 7 Chapter Seven: Political Recognition and Misrecognition Chapter 8: All Clues and (some) Solutions