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Offers new direction in disability studies, by integrating the medical and social model of disability.
Broadens the disability debate to include what and how it is to be vulnerable.
Provides a unique integral approach to thinking about impairment and disability through the integrative lens of being vulnerable, whilst transcending the normative trap which impairment and disability debate finds itself locked in.
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
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Independent Scholar, Lancaster, UK
Floris Tomasini
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Vulnerable Bodies
Book Subtitle: New Directions in Disability Studies
Authors: Floris Tomasini
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-31899-2
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot London
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-29983-2Published: 02 September 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-31899-2Published: 20 August 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 87
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Man, Bioethics