PSY345H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Psycholinguistics, Gene Therapy, Dissociative Identity Disorder
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Step 1: most people cannot imagine how they would cope if they had acquired a severe impairment: we use this to communicate with one another-we may have a child who has a disability and may communicate this. Step 2: impairment is culturally constituted as tragic-we cannot imagine what it is like to be anybody else. If we look at someone with down syndrome and say i am a university student who has everything and look down on the individual with down syndrome as having a tragic life. Then the individual takes their own life and we start to make sense of what happened. It is the argument that marx provides, as to why we tolerate this so much. It is not completely possible to eradicate disability- there are variety of acquired disabilities, where a child may fall of a swing or be involved with accidents, contract diseases, etc. It is a constant battle for public health.
