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Disabled people are experts in innovation and adaptation, experts in building networks of support and knowledge sharing, and experts in navigating a world that is not built for them. This expertise is not a niche form of knowledge, but one that speaks to a fundamental question about how we should live together—and even thrive together—amid the vast landscape of human difference. In pieces discussing everything from moving with guide dogs to hiking on wheels to nurturing chosen family, The Art of Flourishing offers a window into the innumerable and varied ways scholars, artists, writers, and thought leaders with disabilities understand what it means to “flourish.”
For some, it means contesting the medical establishment’s narratives of technological salvation that attempt to “fix” people who don’t need fixing. For others, it means cultivating interdependent networks of artistic collaboration, or it means having agency in choosing how one appears in and navigates public space. Based on a series of public talks hosted by The Hastings Center, a bioethics research institute, and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, this volume demonstrates the incredible range of priorities, practices, and possibilities that characterize disabled experience. It also invites both scholarly and public audiences to imagine what it would take to build a world in which everyone gets to exercise their own capacities in ways they find meaningful.
- Presents an original and accessible engagement with questions and concepts that are central to the fields of bioethics, disability studies, and other health humanities, such as: autonomy and self-determination, narrative and epistemic justice, and intersections of disability identity and medicalization
- Discusses visual art, poetry, and dance within several of the conversations, as it explores the potential for art practices to support disability identity, advocacy, and flourishing
- Provides evidence for policy objectives through first-person accounts of supportive and unsupportive environments in specific contexts, such as health care and education
