Disability Studies is Absolutely Essential in a World Engulfed by Technology and Medicalization
Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2010
Hochschulschrift
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In this thesis, I argue that Disability Studies is a valid field, enabling people to have ongoing nuanced and complex discussions regarding disability, the body, technology, and medicalization. The continuing emphasis on using technology and medicalization to perfect and normalize the human body may have people thinking that Disability Studies is passé or fading into irrelevancy, especially since eliminating impairment and disability are ways of achieving such normal conceptions of the body. However, Disability Studies remains important because it resists these culturally hegemonic standards and advocates for a much more inclusive world. The field itself is constantly progressing in new directions, offering more ways of understanding the human experience as dominant society continues to find new ways to perpetuate normative ideas about the body. With this project, I examine how technology and medicalization affect the way we perceive our own bodies, pressuring us to conform our bodies to a particular type of uniformity and causing more difficult conversations to be pushed to the background. The factors of disability and Disability Studies add more layers of complexity to views formulated by hegemonic influences, and invites people to have thoughtful discussions about the norms and values that shape the way people think about bodies, human rights, and participation in the public sphere. The adaptive nature of Disability Studies allows it to intersect with a variety of different topics and disciplines and continue to develop in the future.
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Disability Studies is Absolutely Essential in a World Engulfed by Technology and Medicalization
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Bartholomy, Jonathan |
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Veröffentlichung: | Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2010 |
Medientyp: | Hochschulschrift |
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