Moving Beyond the "Clash of Cultures"

"The perceptions and values of disabled people (particularly disability rights advocates and disabled social scientists) and of many nondisabled people (particularly health care professionals, ethicists, and health policy analysts), regarding virtually the whole range of current health and medical-ethical issues (treatment decision making, health care access and health care rationing, medical cost-containment, and assisted suicide) seem frequently to conflict with one another....Can we bridge the apparent gulf between disabled and nondisabled perspectives?...The perspectives and values of the disability rights community...need to be incorporated into the ongoing debate about medical practice, ethics, and policy."

--Paul Longmore, "Medical Decision Making and People with Disabilities: A Clash of Cultures," J of Law, Medicine and Ethics 23 (1995): 82-87.

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Disability on the Literature, Arts & Medicine Database

Artist Laura Ferguson investigates and aestheticizes her own body, deformed by severe scoliosis.
http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Annotation?action=view&annid=10392

Introduction to Songs of the Guerrilla Nation: My Journey through Autism, memoir by Dawn Prince- Hughes
http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Annotation?action=view&annid=12459

These are two examples from many annotations of art, literature, film, and theater involving disability on the NYU Literature, Arts and Medicine Database.

Thanks to Felice Aull, Editor.
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