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Selections explore the underlying biases of medical and scientific experiments and explode the binary of the sound and the diseased mind. The collection addresses physical disabilities, but as always investigates issues around pain, mental disability, and invisible disabilities as well.

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The Disability Studies Reader. by: Lennard J. Davis

The Disability Studies Reader. Davis. Publisher: Routledge. Print ISBN: 9781138930223, 1138930229. eText ISBN: 9781317397854, 1317397851. Selections explore the underlying biases of medical and scientific experiments and explode the binary of the sound and the diseased mind.

Lennard J. Davis, American literature educator. Mellon fellow, 1979-1980, American Council of Learned Societies fellow, 1985-1986, John Carter Brown Library. fellow, 1989-1990; recipient Myers Center award for Study of Human Rights in American, 1995; Guggenheim Fellow, 2002-2003. Associate professor literature University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, since 1989, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, 1990-1992. Associate professor State University of New York, Binghamton, 1992-1997, professor, 1997-2000.

CHAPTER 1 Introduction: Normality, Power, and Culture Lennard J. Davis We live in a world of norms. So much of writing about disability has focused on the disabled person as the object of study, just as the study of race has focused on the person of color

CHAPTER 1 Introduction: Normality, Power, and Culture Lennard J. So much of writing about disability has focused on the disabled person as the object of study, just as the study of race has focused on the person of color. But as with recent scholarship on race, which has turned its attention to whiteness and inter- sectionality, I would like to focus not so much on the construction of disability as on the construction of normalcy. I do this because the "problem" is not the person with disabili- ties; the problem is the way that normalcy is constructed to create the "problem" of the disabled person.