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Some Insights Into 'Disability Studies'

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According to this thinking, it is part of the power structure to attempt for doctors to fix a person's disability. To fix a disability is ruining a person's disability experience and suggesting that it is better to not be disabled.

James Lindsay explains:
Dis/ability studies today are almost entirely dominated by the Social Justice approach, which draws heavily upon Michel Foucault's work on social constructions around madness and sexuality. As such, most of the work in dis/ability studies today argues that unjust power dynamics about disabilities are socially constructed by scientific and medical discourses that assume it is preferable if all one's body parts work and seek to cure or mitigate conditions in which they don't function. Drawing upon Foucault's postmodern analyses of power-knowledge and biopower explicitly—specifically, that just as homosexuality was once thought to be a disorder needing treatment due to moralistic prejudice against LGBT people—this approach theorizes that we also perceive disability as a problem to be treated because of moralistic prejudice against disabled people. For this reason, dis/ability studies today draws very significantly upon queer Theory and tends to see being disabled as just another way to be queer, i.e. to subvert and disrupt normativities.


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