Overview
Changing the World of the Disabled From A Matter of Dignity- I realized that I needed to learn about the legislative and legal aspects of disability as much as I did about our feelings regarding wholeness, beauty and ugliness, about the state called normalcy, about liberating technologies and therapies, about the role of the disabled in history and literature. And what could better inform and enlighten me than contact with people who help create access, who elicit change via care, support, teaching, and study as their life's work? As it turned out, I have learned from them that, in spite of the American addiction to youthfulness, ""normalcy,"" virility, activity, and physical beauty, diversity in all its forms provides not only fascination but strength. Diversity tends toward higher forms, uniformity toward dullness and extinction. What could make more sense than to value all that is diverse, unexpected, and exuberantly impure?
Full Product Details
Author: Andrew Potok
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Imprint: Random House USA Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.40cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 23.00cm
Weight: 0.439kg
ISBN: 9780553381245
ISBN 10: 0553381245
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 04 February 2003
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Inactive
Availability: Awaiting stock
Reviews
"""Covering medical, legal and psychological issues in depth and with intellectual vigour, the most provocative of Potok's work is his examination 'about our feelings regarding wholeness, beauty, and ugliness [and] about the state called normalcy,' making the book less about changing the world of the disabled than about in re-imagining the world in which we all live."" - Publishers Weekly"
""Covering medical, legal and psychological issues in depth and with intellectual vigour, the most provocative of Potok's work is his examination 'about our feelings regarding wholeness, beauty, and ugliness [and] about the state called normalcy,' making the book less about changing the world of the disabled than about in re-imagining the world in which we all live."" - Publishers Weekly
Covering medical, legal and psychological issues in depth and with intellectual vigour, the most provocative of Potok's work is his examination 'about our feelings regarding wholeness, beauty, and ugliness [and] about the state called normalcy,' making the book less about changing the world of the disabled than about in re-imagining the world in which we all live. - Publishers Weekly
Author Information
Andrew Potok, a painter and a writer, is the author ofOrdinary Daylight- Portrait of the Artist Going Blind; My Lifewith Goya,a novel; andA Matter of Dignity- Changing theWorld of the Disabled.He lives in Vermont.
