Brilliant imperfection : grappling with cure / / Eli Clare

• Autore: Clare Eli
• Pubblicazione: Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 pages)
• Disciplina: 305.9/08
• Soggetto topico: People with disabilities; Disabilities; Healing
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Brilliant imperfection
• ISBN: 0-8223-7352-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910157806603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II