关键词: Disability Literature Medical humanities Philosophy of medicine/health care

Mesh : Humans Disabled Persons Fictional Works as Topic

来  源:   DOI:10.1007/s10912-023-09792-3

Abstract:
Describing someone as disabled means evaluating their relationship with their environment, body, and self. Such descriptions pivot on the person\'s perceived limitations due to their atypical embodiment. However, impairments are not inherently pathological, nor are disabilities necessarily deviations from biological normality, a discrepancy often articulated in science fiction via the presentation of radically altered environments. In such settings, non-impaired individuals can be shown to be unsuited to the world they find themselves in. One prime example of this comes courtesy of H. G. Wells\'s \"The Country of the Blind.\" This paper demonstrates science fiction\'s capacity to decouple disability\'s normative quality from classical medical models stemming from the medical Enlightenment movement by challenging the idea of the biologically normal. It first provides a brief account of disability before exploring the concept of medical normality. It then problematizes the biologically consistent being, arguing that health is only understandable when environmentally situated. Next, the paper provides an overview of \"The Country of the Blind\" before analyzing how it challenges the idea of biological normality, framing it as a social product rather than a universal constant. Finally, the paper concludes that science fiction narratives effectively interrogate our world\'s seemingly consistent trends by envisioning (un)desirable alternatives.
摘要:
将某人描述为残疾人意味着评估他们与环境的关系,身体,和自我。这样的描述基于人由于其非典型的体现而感知的局限性。然而,损伤本身不是病理性的,残疾也不一定偏离生物常态,科幻小说中经常通过呈现彻底改变的环境来表达差异。在这样的设置中,没有受损的人可以被证明不适合他们所处的世界。一个典型的例子来自H.G.Wells的“盲人的国家”。“本文通过挑战生物学正常的概念,证明了科幻小说将残疾的规范质量与源于医学启蒙运动的经典医学模型脱钩的能力。在探索医学正常性的概念之前,首先简要介绍了残疾。然后它对生物学上一致的存在提出问题,认为健康只有在环境条件下才能理解。接下来,本文概述了“盲人国家”,然后分析了它如何挑战生物常态的概念,将其视为一种社会产品,而不是一个普遍的常数。最后,本文得出的结论是,科幻小说叙事通过设想(非)理想的替代方案,有效地询问了我们世界看似一致的趋势。
公众号