What one of our listmates says:
"There are, of course, problems that are a direct result of impairment:
pain, suffering, frustrations, and anxiety often accompany impairment, and no
amount of social change or theory will take those away. Even though pain and
even less extreme kinds of discomfort are mediated by social and political
contingencies, they remain intensely personal experiences. I believe that
discourse on the social, cultural, and political meaning of disability can
and should take on these issues, which disability studies has not yet done
successfully. Paul Longmore . . . described this gap in the literature as
'the need to theorize about impairment.'"
Simi Linton, Claiming Disability (1998), p. 138.
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