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Michael, if you are interested in Foucauldian (and other philosophical) approaches to the body, you should look forward to the interdisciplinary (and counter-disciplinary) collection _Foucault and the Government of Disability_ (University of Michigan Press) which is forthcoming in the Spring 2004 to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of Foucault's unexpected and untimely death (June 25, 1984). The publication will be too late for your seminar, but worth exploring for your future studies. The book is sure to cause a bit of a stir, not the least of all because various authors in the book problematize and critically assess notions in disability theory and activism (such as "inclusion," "community care," and so on) that are taken for granted as "liberatory" and "progressive". You might also be interested in a forthcoming paper I wrote on prenatal testing and genetic counseling. In the paper, which is entitled "Anti-Realism, Bio-politics, and the Government of Impairment in Pregnancy," I critique prenatal testing and genetic counseling discourse, and I show why the standard social model critiques of prenatal testing and screening made by people like Gregor Wolbring and Mark Priestley ought not to be accepted. This paper will appear in a collection entitled _Critical Disability Theory: Legal and Policy Dimensions_, edited by Dianne Pothier and Richard Devlin. Pothier and Devlin, eds. will be published by University of British Columbia Press (UBC Press) probably later next year. Best regards, Shelley Lynn Tremain ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Peckitt" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 8:58 AM Subject: A Seminar on Disability & The Body query > To all > > Hi there, I am a Tutor in Philosophy at the University of Hull, England. > This semester there is a course running on the Body as it appears in > Philosophy, and we, that is two of my lecturers are doing a week on > disability on the body - starting with the social model a la Oliver and > Barnes, but also looking at Focauldian approaches that Shelley Tremain would > advance, and phenomenological which I suppose, I amongst others would > advocate. > > My lecturers and I like to use practical activities in the seminars, so my > query is does anyone have any ideas, I remember some people used experiments > loosley based on Aesop's Swan and Fox fable - similar to the Blue eyes/Brown > Eyes expirement on prejudice. > > Thanks, > > Michael Peckitt > > _________________________________________________________________ > On the move? Get Hotmail on your mobile phone http://www.msn.co.uk/msnmobile > > ________________End of message______________________ > > Archives and tools for the Disability-Research Discussion List > are now located at: > > www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html > > You can JOIN or LEAVE the list from this web page. > > ________________End of message______________________ Archives and tools for the Disability-Research Discussion List are now located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html You can JOIN or LEAVE the list from this web page.