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Vulnerable Bodies

New Directions in Disability Studies

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  1. Floris Tomasini

    1. Independent Scholar, Lancaster, UK

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  • Offers new direction in disability studies, by integrating the medical and social model of disability.

  • Broadens the disability debate to include what and how it is to be vulnerable.

  • Provides a unique integral approach to thinking about impairment and disability through the integrative lens of being vulnerable, whilst transcending the normative trap which impairment and disability debate finds itself locked in.

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Floris Tomasini
    Pages 1-3

  3. Vulnerability

    • Floris Tomasini
    Pages 5-18

  4. Beyond Disability?

    • Floris Tomasini
    Pages 19-43

  5. Narratives of Vulnerability

    • Floris Tomasini
    Pages 45-77

  6. Conclusion

    • Floris Tomasini
    Pages 79-81

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 83-87
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About this book

This book offers new direction in disability studies, by integrating the medical and social model of disability. The first aim is to provide an integral approach to thinking about impairment and disability through the integrative lens of being vulnerable. The second aim is to transcend the normative trap which impairment and disability debate finds itself locked in.


Disability debate is trapped in a normative struggle to escape oppressive norms. Either, by legitimizing the desire to be free from impairment, where a legitimization identity is promoted through the medical model. Or, by resisting discriminative social norms, where the desire is to be free from oppressive social barriers that exist on top of having impairment. Identifying with one’s vulnerability, or embodied uncertainty, allows for the possibility of forging meaning and building new identity. It allows freedom to express embodied difference, rather than to transform or defend it.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Independent Scholar, Lancaster, UK

    Floris Tomasini

About the author

Floris Tomasini is an applied philosopher, and recently, a Post-Doctoral Wellcome Trust Fellow.  He co-wrote Examining Trust in Healthcare: A Multidisciplinary Perspective with David Pilgrim and Ivo Vassilev. As well as many articles, his last book is called Remembering and Disremembering the Dead: Posthumous Punishment, Harm and Redemption over Time.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Vulnerable Bodies

  • Book Subtitle: New Directions in Disability Studies

  • Authors: Floris Tomasini

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-31899-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Pivot London

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-29983-2Published: 02 September 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-31899-2Published: 20 August 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 87

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Philosophy of Man, Bioethics

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