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The Body Politic: Theorising Disability and Impairment
Author(s) -
COLE PHILLIP
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of applied philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.339
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1468-5930
pISSN - 0264-3758
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5930.2007.00369.x
Subject(s) - social model of disability , body politic , sociology , disability studies , medical model of disability , connection (principal bundle) , psychology , gender studies , political science , politics , law , psychiatry , structural engineering , engineering
In her critique of the social model of disability, Lorella Terzi argues that it over‐socialises disability, and that some kind of connection must be made between disability and bodily impairment. In this paper I argue that, far from over‐socialising disability, the social model does not go far enough. The important contribution of the social model is that it politicises disability. I argue that bodily impairment must itself be politicised, and the insights of the social model should be extended to the body itself.