The Body Silent: The Different World of the Disabled
Robert F. Murphy, 1987
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A Columbia anthropologist turns his own progressive paralysis into fieldwork, analyzing disability with the tools he spent a career using on other cultures. His insight that disabled people live in social "liminality" (never fully in, never fully out) names something most disabled readers recognize instantly. A rare bridge between memoir and theory.
Disabled VoiceDisability Studies
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