Hello Helen and All,
Actually I am not surprised at the quote. At the risk of opening an old chestnut, Murphy's book the "silent body" as a source is often used to buttress the support for the impairment model of disability. Murphy draws on the concept of liminality - not alive and not dead disability occupying the space between.
Myself I agree with the Tremain who sees impairment as socially constructed. I do not deny the materiality of the body but see it as affirming.
cheers,
Jim
James Overboe
Assistant Professor
Sociology Department
Cultural Analysis and Social Theory M.A. Program
Wilfrid Laurier University
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C H A P T E R 1 3 (In ‘Disability Studies: Past Present and
Future’ edited by Len Barton and Mike Oliver (1997), Leeds: The
Disability Press, pp. 217 - 233).
Cultural Representation of Disabled People: dustbins for disavowal?
Tom Shakespeare
(First published 1994)
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/archiveuk/Shakespeare/chapter13.pdf
The long-term physically impaired are neither sick nor well,
neither dead nor alive, neither out of society nor wholly in it. They
are human beings but their bodies are warped or malfunctioning,
leaving their full humanity in doubt. They are not ill, for illness is
transitional to either death or recovery.... The sick person lives in
a state of social suspension until he or she gets better. The disabled
[sic] spend a lifetime in a similar suspended state. They are neither
fish nor fowl; they exist in partial isolation from society as undefined,
ambiguous people. (Murphy, 1987, p. 112)
How about THIS for a quote? UGGH! Can you believe how RECENTLY it was written?
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