Reading List - Philosophy of Disability

Contributed by Gabriel Levc and Ella Berger

Introduction: Concepts of Disability, Elizabeth Barnes (2016): "Constructing Disability". The Minority Body, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 9-53.

Foucauldian Perspectives on Disability, Shelley Tremain (2018): "Philosophy and the Apparatus of Disability". Adam Cureton & David Wasserman (eds.): Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Disability. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Medical Gaslighting & Intersectional Perspectives, Elena Ruìz (2020): "Cultural Gaslighting". Hypatia 35, 687-713.

Ableism in Bioethics, Joseph A. Stramondo (2021): "Bioethics, Adaptive Preferences, and Judging the Quality of a Life with Disability". Social Theory and Practice 47(1), 199-220.

Ableist Language in Academic Philosophy, Sami Schalk (2013): "Metaphorically Speaking: Ableist Metaphors in Feminist Writing". Disability Studies Quarterly 33(4). Shelley Tremain (2011): "Ableist language and philosophical associations". New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science.

Phenomenological Approaches, Kim Q. Hall (2021): "Limping Along: Toward a Crip Phenomenology". The Journal of Philosophy of Disability 1, 11-33.

Social Construction & Otherism, Craig Collinson (2020): "Ordinary language use and the social construction of dyslexia". Disability & Society 35(6), 993-1006.