Might you consider a re-hash?
This is of personal interest -and Philosophy Now addressed it in the past:
Anita Silvers from SFSU wrote the article."Overview: Philosophy and Disability", PHILOSOPHY NOW, Dec 200/Jan 2001, Issue 30
Anita Silvers from SFSU wrote the article."Overview: Philosophy and Disability", PHILOSOPHY NOW, Dec 200/Jan 2001, Issue 30
To what degree do you think it is the medicalisation of the mental that causes problems rather than the mental idiosyncrasies of those deemed problematic by the medicalisation of the mental?BeyondUs wrote:Psychonaut wrote:I think I am going to start a couple of threads about disability and philosophy..
Defining Disability
Big Pharma wants your soul
Autism is a maladaptation?
I do hope that Rick takes up this idea, if not devoting a whole issue then at least some space to it.. it is close to a lot of people's hearts; I would be surprised to find someone who isn't close to someone who is disabled.
I would be more than happy to try my hand at a contribution..
Well aware that this post dates back to 2008, but I found this topic rather interesting. If you're wondering, I'm writing a paper on mental illness/disability and its effects on society (and vice versa) and one of our assignments is to observe a conversation with other people's viewpoints. This conversation couldn't be more perfect! Heck, those sub-conversations couldn't be more perfect.
Anyway, I think it's interesting how mental illness is viewed in our society. There are different classifications of mental illness and within that, there are different classifications of who is mentally slow or intelligent. Autism is tricky because there's a wide spectrum of classifications and attributes. Autistic people range from highly functional to very severe (borderlline dyslexia, etc). Personally, I think the best person to really classify illnesses is a psychologist/psychiatrist (there's a whole directory of them on angies list). What I would like to know is how one CLASSIFIES a mental illness as a full-fledged disability.
Thanks for letting me ramble, guys! =D