Amy Redhead discusses the ethical necessity of involving people with Down’s Syndrome (DS) in discussions of, and debates around, selective abortion (SA). Bioethical debates surrounding Down’s syndrome (trisomy 21) have taken up space in
Professor Dan Goodley reflects on the recent Northern Network of the Medical Humanities Congress and the necessity to embrace disability as a driving subject of inquiry. I had the pleasure, this week, to attend
Dr. Joe Holloway makes a case for bringing the traditionally differentiated frameworks of psychoanalysis and critical disability studies into dialogue with each-other. Despite the excellent research from a range of scholars working at the
Lisanne Meinen, Gert-Jan Vanaken and Tessa Vannieuwenhuyze review the presentations from their groundbreaking ‘Differing Bodyminds’ symposium and doctoral school, which sought to establish the position of crip theory in the Low Countries.
Disability scholars Lisanne Meinen, Gert-Jan Vanaken and Tessa Vannieuwenhuyze describe the challenges that shaped Differing Bodyminds – Choreographing New Pathways, the first official event on crip theory in Flanders.
Who counts as a human? Emma Salt-Raper reviews Dan Goodley’s new book, Disability and Other Human Questions. In these times of polarised politics, economic instability and the escalating COVID-19 crisis, disability practices and politics
We have been living through months of online-intensity. Since the beginning of lockdown in late March, most of us have moved our lives into the virtual sphere, seeing 3-D humans less and less, communicating
