Tentatively she puts forth a comment on other facts of the matter ...
Have the pundits of peals looked at the PEALS seminar listings? Although
it is, as you suggest, housed within a bio-science dominated building,
that is by no means the only thread of thought that goes on there.
Just last week, I saw an excellent talk sponsored by PEALS by Prof. John
Swinton AGAINST selective abortion, peter singer's ideas, and various
other items in your list below of what tom/peals supports. There were also
many people in the audience (mostly from the building I think) who were
quite favourable to what Swinton had to say, and others whose comments
suggested that their imaginations had been effectively illuminated by this
talk. And isn't that the point?
I don't know tom and it was my first exposure to peals, but I can say
this, people in disability studies or related humanities/social science
fields, concerned with creating better understandings of impairment and
disabling social/economic structures for ourselves AND in the world,
can't hide in our enclaves and talk to each other alone. Whatever TS is
doing, I hardly think it's being a mouthpiece and if you haven't yet
realized that changing the bio-med view is going to take more than
yelling at them, then you're no better.
If I were a betting man, I'd say some of these emails were as personally
motivated as professionaly. hmmmmmm
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: The Disability-Research Discussion List
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Shelley Tremain
>> Sent: 07 November 2004 21:37
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: More about the Cure
>>
>>
>> Ron,
>>
>> thank you very much for clearing away some of the smoke screens
>> and mirrors that have been erected in this discussion, most (though not
all) by Tom .........
>> people's movement. And pave the way for their acceptance he has:
>> first, by
>> trying to persuade the disabled community to accept prenatal testing and
>> selective abortion, next, by rationalizing cures, remedial medicine, and
>> stem cell research, and perhaps in the near future, recommending
>> euthanasia.
>>
>> Tom Shakespeare is no more an ally of disabled people than is
>> Peter Singer,
>> .......
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Shelley Tremain
>>
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