Disability, Deadly Discourse, and Collectivity amid Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Disability, Deadly Discourse, and Collectivity amid Coronavirus (COVID-19)
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DOI：
10.16993/sjdr.732
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发表时间：
2020-01-01
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通讯作者：
Abbott, David
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作者：
Abrams, Thomas;Abbott, David
随着 COVID-19 席卷全球，残疾人面临着新的医疗和话语现实。着眼于后者的后果，我们利用加拿大和英国的新闻报道来论证当前现有疾病的语言将残疾视为非生命，从而掩盖了残疾人面临的物质现实。这种语言忽视了我们社会中护理工作的分配、贫困以及残疾人和更广泛的人口面临的其他形式的排斥。对呼吸机用户的研究指出了这些现有的不平等现象，尽管它们可能被掩盖了。这个故事并不新鲜。概述残疾研究中现有的叙述，挑战残疾作为致命的生物和经济缺陷，并在其中定位“预先存在的”术语，我们希望在残疾研究和生物伦理学方面开展工作，挑战残疾与死亡的方程式。我们最后回顾了残疾人的反叙述，强调了整个残疾人权利运动中持续存在的、肯定生命的抵抗。
As COVID-19 crosses the globe, disabled people are subject to new medical and discursive realities. Focusing on the consequences of the latter, we utilize news reports from Canada and the UK to argue the current language of pre-existing conditions represents disability as non-life, explaining away the material realities facing disabled persons. This language ignores the distribution of care work in our societies, poverty, and other forms of exclusion facing disabled people and the population more generally. Work on ventilator users points to these existing inequalities, obscured as they may be. This story is not new. Outlining existing narratives within disability studies challenging disability as deadly biological and economic deficiency and situating the `pre-existing' terminology therein, we look to work in disability studies and bioethics to challenge the disability-death equation. We end reviewing counter-narratives by and for disabled people, highlighting the ongoing and life-affirming resistance throughout the disability rights movement.