Rashed, MA;
(2019)
In Defense of Madness: The Problem of Disability.
The Journal of Medicine & Philosophy
, 44
(2)
pp. 150-174.
10.1093/jmp/jhy016.
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Abstract
At a time when different groups in society are achieving notable gains in respect and rights, activists in mental health and proponents of mad positive approaches, such as Mad Pride, are coming up against considerable challenges. A particular issue is the commonly held view that madness is inherently disabling and cannot form the grounds for identity or culture. This paper responds to the challenge by developing two bulwarks against the tendency to assume too readily the view that madness is inherently disabling: the first arises from the normative nature of disability judgments, and the second arises from the implications of political activism in terms of being a social subject. In the process of arguing for these two bulwarks, the paper explores the basic structure of the social model of disability in the context of debates on naturalism and normativism, the applicability of the social model to madness, and the difference between physical and mental disabilities in terms of the unintelligibility often attributed to the latter.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | In Defense of Madness: The Problem of Disability |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/jmp/jhy016 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/jmp/jhy016 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy Inc. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com. |
| Keywords: | Mad Pride, intelligibility, naturalism, normativism, philosophy of psychiatry, political activism, social model of disability, philosophy of medicine |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1508002 |
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