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Title
Contours of ableism
Type
Text
Monograph
Contribution
Campbell, Fiona Kumari, 1963- (Contributor)
Subject
People with disabilities (LCSH)
Disabilities (LCSH)
Disabilities (FAST)
People with disabilities (FAST)
Language
English
Illustrative Content
Illustrations
Classification
LCC: HV1568 .C377 2009
DDC: 362.4 full
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Supplementary Content
bibliography
index
Content
text
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"--Provided by publisher.
Table Of Contents
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?
Authorized Access Point
Campbell, Fiona Kumari, 1963- Contours of ableism
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Change Date: 2016-03-29T12:18:28
Creation Date: 2016-02-09
Description Language: English
Description Modifier: United States, Library of Congress
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