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Summary:

A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are the real experts when it comes to technology and disability.
"When bioethicist and professor Ashley Shew became a self-described "hard-of-hearing chemobrained amputee with Crohn's disease and tinnitus," there was no returning to "normal." Suddenly well-meaning people called her an "inspiration" while grocery shopping or viewed her as a needy recipient of technological wizardry. Most disabled people don't want what the abled assume they want -- nor are they generally asked. Almost everyone will experience disability at some point in their lives, yet the abled persistently frame disability as an individual's problem rather than a social one. In a warm, feisty voice and vibrant prose, Shew shows how we can create better narratives and more accessible futures by drawing from the insights of the cross-disability community. To forge a more equitable world, Shew argues that we must eliminate "technoableism" -- the harmful belief that technology is a "solution" for disability; that the disabled simply await being "fixed" by technological wizardry; that making society more accessible and equitable is somehow a lesser priority. This badly needed introduction to disability expertise considers mobility devices, medical infrastructure, neurodivergence, and the crucial relationship between disability and race. The future, Shew points out, is surely disabled -- whether through changing climate, new diseases, or even through space travel. It's time we looked closely at how we all think about disability technologies and learn to envision disabilities not as liabilities, but as skill sets enabling all of us to navigate a challenging world."-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Disabled everything: a quick guide to the upcoming chapters
• Disorientation
• Scritps and crips
• New legs, old tricks
• The neurodivergent resistance
• Accessible futures.

Author/Creator:

Shew, Ashley, 1983- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Against technoableism: rethinking who needs improvement [by Shew, A.]

Related Series:

Norton shorts

Subjects:

Technology and people with disabilities

People with disabilities — Social conditions

People with disabilities — Attitudes

People with disabilities

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

148 pages ; 22 cm.

Call Numbers:

HV1568 .S446 2023

ISBNs:

9781324036661 (hardcover)
1324036664 (hardcover)
9781324036678 (ePub ebook) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1362864984