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Disability/Postmodernity 2 Copyright 3 Contents 4 Contributors 6 Foreword by Iris Marion Young 11 References 13 Mapping the Terrain. Mairian Corker and Tom Shakespeare 14 Introduction 14 Modernism and postmodemity 14 Mapping the postmodern terrain 17 Embodying disability theory 26 References 29 Key source texts related to postmodern and post-structuralist theory 29 A Journey around the Social Model. Carol Thomas and Mairian Corker 31 Introduction 31 Positioning ourselves 31 On the Subject of Impairment. Shelley Tremain 45 Biopower and the juridical subject 48 Disciplining disability 54 Acknowledgements 58 Note 58 References 58 A Postmodern Disorder: Moral Encounters with Molecular Models of Disability. Jackie Leach Scully 61 Jackie Leach Scully 61 Introduction 61 Postmodern medicine 64 Postmodern medicine and the body 65 Postmodern medical ethics? 68 Consequences 71 Acknowledgements 73 References 73 Bodies Together: Touch, Ethics and Disability 75 Janet Price and Margrit Shildrick 75 Notes 87 References 87 The Body as Embodiment: An Investigation of the Body by Merleau-Ponty 89 Miho Iwakuma 89 Introduction 89 The Cartesian dualism and philosophy of Merleau-Ponty 89 The body as embo
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Mairian Corker (editor), Tom Shakespeare (editor)
- Publisher
- Continuum International Publishing Group, Incorporated
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780826450555
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Social Science, Poetry, Sociology
- Updated
- 2026-03-24