LEADER 03489oam 22004814 450 001 9910157806603321 005 20230629034614.0 010 $a0-8223-7352-1 035 $a(OCoLC)946461709 035 $a(CKB)3710000001009456 035 $a(OCoLC)1143621749 035 $a(OCoLC)1153006056 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4775649 035 $a964074290 035 $a(PPN)242625606 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001009456 100 $a20161123d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aBrilliant imperfection $egrappling with cure /$fEli Clare 210 1$aDurham :$cDuke University Press,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (241 pages) 311 $a0-8223-6287-2 311 $a0-8223-6276-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: writing a mosaic -- A note on reading this book: thinking about trigger warnings -- Brilliant imperfection: white pines -- Ideology of cure -- Birth -- Prayers, crystals, vitamins -- Beliefs about disability -- Overcoming disability -- Hope in motion -- Rebelling against cure -- The restoration of health -- Walking in the prairie -- Brilliant imperfection: twitches and tremors -- Violence of cure -- Defect -- At the center of cure lies eradication -- Personhood is a weapon -- Great turmoil -- Brilliant imperfection: maples -- In tandem with cure -- Cerebral palsy -- Reading diagnosis -- Disorder -- Antibiotics and acupuncture -- The price of diagnosis -- Useful, but to whom? -- Brilliant imperfection: stone -- Nuances of cure -- Wishing you less pain -- Wanting cure -- Birthmark -- Cautionary tale -- Body-mind yearning -- Yearning for the peeper pond -- Jostling my anti-cure politics -- Your suicide haunts me -- Brilliant imperfection: shells -- Structure of cure -- The medical-industrial complex -- A far-reaching network -- Troubled and troubling body-minds -- Variations on cure -- Skin lighteners and hot springs -- Brilliant imperfection: hermit crabs -- How cure works -- Cure just around the corner -- Charity events -- Shifting technologies -- A pharmaceutical history of eflornithine -- Brilliant imperfection: rolling -- At the center of cure -- Carrie Buck I: yearning -- Carrie Buck II: torrent of history -- Carrie Buck III: feebleminded -- Lives reduced to case files -- Living with monkey -- Schizophrenia -- Brilliant imperfection: Myrtle -- Moving through cure -- Choosing disability -- Airports and cornfields -- Interdependence -- Wanting a flat chest -- Gender identity disorder -- Claiming ourselves -- Brilliant imperfection: drag queen -- Impacts of cure -- Endless questions -- Ashley's father -- Resisting intelligence -- Feeling broken -- Being fixed -- Shame and pride -- Brilliant imperfection: survival notes -- Promise of cure -- Normal and natural -- Finding wholeness -- Gender transition -- Bullied -- A maze of contradictions -- Mama, what will you swear? -- Walking in the prairie again -- Brilliant imperfection: cycling. 606 $aPeople with disabilities 606 $aDisabilities 606 $aHealing 615 0$aPeople with disabilities. 615 0$aDisabilities. 615 0$aHealing. 676 $a305.9/08 700 $aClare$b Eli$01234902 801 0$bNDD 801 1$bNDD 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910157806603321 996 $aBrilliant imperfection$92868658 997 $aUNINA