The Norm___ and the Pathological
| Autor: | Kevin Gotkin |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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| Zdroj: | Disability Studies Quarterly, Vol 36, Iss 1 (2016) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1041-5718 2159-8371 |
| DOI: | 10.18061/dsq.v36i1.4281 |
| Popis: | In this paper, I read The Normal and the Pathological by French philosopher Georges Canguilhem for what it can offer disability theory. I examine how the field has already taken up the text but further, I argue for The Normal and the Pathological as a keystone of disability theory (currently taken up with curiously reserved energy). I start with a précis on the text before offering a condensed citation analysis of the book. In the latter part of the paper, I suggest how the monograph might inform current conversations and I offer possibilities for it to deepen and complicate core notions about disability, including the social model, norms, normalcy, and the normate. I conclude by suggesting that Canguilhem’s philosophical intervention can be understood as "propulsive atavism" – an excavation of medical epistemology in order to map and reconfigure its legacies – and I propose this as one methodological template for disability scholarship. |
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