Making and Unmaking Disability

The Three-Body Approach

By: Julie E. Maybee

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Paperback | 16 September 2019

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264 Pages

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13 - 17

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Julie E. Maybee uses a unique combination of a comprehensive theory--the three-bodies approach--and concrete examples to trace the social construction of disability and impairment in Western societies and to suggest how disability and impairment may be unmade to better understand and serve those in the community. Through an examination of the history disability as well as of a variety of interdisciplinary sourcesâ"disability studies, philosophy, African studies and philosophy, philosophy of science, sociology, medical sociology, anthropology, social work and rehabilitation medicineâ"Maybee offers a wide-ranging philosophical analysis of existing discourse while developing a new methodology for ongoing debates.

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Drawing from a knowledge base encompassing such diverse disciplines as anthropology, philosophy, feminist theory, and disability theory and history, Maybee (philosophy, Lehman College, CUNY) develops a powerful discussion of the way prevailing societal beliefs shape every facet of how people organize and make sense of the world around them. Maybee's three-pronged strategy is based on embodiment—institutional, interpersonal, and individual—and she uses it in analyzing how persistent values are created and reflected in the language used to define disability, in effect “making” a construct of a person’s worth in the community. Maybee explores the interactive sociocultural and economic factors that keep people who have disabilities from fully engaging with their milieus. She suggests, rightly, that to achieve equality for people with disabilities, change must be institutional and structural to be effective and “unmake” disability. Maybee is a skilled writer and lays out logical arguments to facilitate change. She has extensive experience as a mother of a child who became disabled because of a brain aneurysm. The narrative is easy to follow, and Maybee provides succinct outlines reinforcing her points.

Summing Up: Recommended. All readers.

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