Brilliant imperfection : grappling with cure /

"In Brilliant Imperfection Eli Clare uses memoir, history, and critical analysis to explore cure;the deeply held belief that body-minds considered broken need to be fixed. Cure serves many purposes. It saves lives, manipulates lives, and prioritizes some lives over others. It provides comfort,...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Clare, Eli (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
Subjects:	Healing > Psychological aspects. People with disabilities. Mind and body therapies. Health attitudes. Medicine > Philosophy. Disabled Persons Therapeutics Rehabilitation Attitude to Health Philosophy, Medical Recovery of Function Personnes handicapées. Handicap. Guérison. Thérapeutique. Réadaptation. Attitudes à l'égard de la santé. Médecine > Philosophie. handicapped. physically handicapped. treating (health care function) People with disabilities Behinderung Störung Heilung

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Writing a mosaic
A note on reading this book : thinking about trigger warnings
Brilliant imperfection : white pines
1. Ideology of Cure. Birth ; Prayers, crystals, vitamins ; Beliefs about disability ; Overcoming disability ; Hope in motion ; Rebelling against cure ; The restoration of health ; Walking in the prairie
Brilliant imperfection : twitches and tremors
2. Violence of Cure. Defect ; At the center of cure lies eradication ; Personhood is a weapon ; Great turmoil
Brilliant imperfection : maples
3. In Tandem with Cure. Cerebral palsy ; Reading diagnosis ; Disorder ; Antibiotics and acupuncture ; The price of diagnosis ; Useful, but to whom?
Brilliant imperfection : stone
4. Nuances of Cure. Wishing you less pain ; Wanting cure ; Birthmark ; Cautionary tale ; Body-mind yearning ; Yearning for the peeper pond ; Jostling my anti-cure politics ; Your suicide haunts me
Brilliant imperfection : shells
5. Structure of Cure. The medical-industrial complex ; A far-reaching network ; Troubled and troubling body-minds ; Variations on cure ; Skin lighteners and hot springs
Brilliant imperfection : hermit crabs
6. How Cure Works. Cure just around the corner ; Charity events ; Shifting technologies ; A pharmaceutical history of eflornithine
Brilliant imperfection : rolling
7. At the Center of Cure. Carrie Buck I : yearning ; Carrie Buck II : torrent of history ; Carrie Buck III : feebleminded ; Lives reduced to case files ; Living with Monkey ; Schizophrenia
Brilliant imperfection : myrtle
8. Moving Through Cure. Choosing disability ; Airports and cornfields ; Interdependence ; Wanting a flat chest ; Gender identity disorder ; Claiming ourselves
Brilliant imperfection : drag queen
9. Impacts of Cure. Endless questions ; Ashley's father ; Resisting intelligence ; Feeling broken ; Being fixed ; Shame and pride
Brilliant imperfection : survival notes
10. Promise of Cure. Normal and natural ; Finding wholeness ; Gender transition ; Bullied ; A maze of contradictions ; Mama, what will you swear? ; Walking in the prairie again
Brilliant imperfection : cycling.