Rethinking Disability: Bodies, Senses, And Things

Rethinking Disability Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society 1. Science and the Media Alternative Routes in Scientific Communication Massimiano Bucchi 8. Science Images and Popular Images of Science Edited by Bernd Huppauf and Peter Weingart 2. Animals, Disease and Human Society Human-Animal Relations and the Rise of Veterinary Medicine Joanna Swabe 9. Wind Power and Power Politics International Perspectives Edited by Peter A. Strachan, David Toke and David Lal 3. Transnational Environmental Policy The Ozone Layer Reiner Grundmann 4. Biology and Political Science Robert H Blank and Samuel M. Hines, Jr. 5. Technoculture and Critical Theory In the Service of the Machine? Simon Cooper 6. Biomedicine as Culture Instrumental Practices, Technoscientific Knowledge, and New Modes of Life Edited by Regula Valérie Burri and Joseph Dumit 7. Journalism, Science and Society Science Communications Between News and Public Relations Edited by Martin W. Bauer and Massimiano Bucchi 10. Global Public Health Vigilance Creating a World on Alert Lorna Weir and Eric Mykhalovskiy 11. Rethinking Disability Bodies, Senses, and Things Michael Schillmeier Rethinking Disability Bodies, Senses, and Things Michael Schillmeier New York London First published 2010 by Routledge 270 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 Simultaneously published in the UK by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2010. To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk. © 2010 Taylor & Francis All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Schillmeier, Michael W. J. Rethinking disability : bodies, senses and things / by Michael Schillmeier. p. cm.—(Routledge studies in science, technology and society ; 11) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Sociology of disability. 2. Human body—Social aspects. I. Title. HV1568.S35 2010 305.9'08—dc22 2009039702 ISBN 0-203-85484-5 Master e-book ISBN ISBN10: 0-415-99325-3 (hbk) ISBN10: 0-203-85484-5 (ebk) ISBN13: 978-0-415-99325-8 (hbk) ISBN13: 978-0-203-85484-6 (ebk) This book is dedicated in gratitude to Elizabeth Schillmeier, and in memory of Heinz Schillmeier, Elke Schillmeier, and Maria Assumpció Monguilod Porqueras. Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Rethinking Disability—Revisiting the Social ix 1 PART I ‘The Social’ in Question: Rethinking Modern Di/visions 1 The Social and the Religion of Modernity 2 Oth