Foucault and the Government of Disability Tremain Paperback 9780472036387

Foucault and the Government of DisabilityAuthor(s): Shelley Lynn Tremain\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Michigan Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Michigan Press\nISBN-13: 9780472036387, 978-0472036387\nSynopsis\nFoucault and the Government of Disability considers the continued relevance of Foucault to disability studies, as well as the growing significance of disability studies to understandings of Foucault. A decade ago, this international collection provocatively responded to Foucaults call to question what is regarded as natural, inevitable, ethical, and liberating. The books contributors draw on Foucault to scrutinize a range of widely endorsed practices and ideas surrounding disability, including rehabilitation, community care, impairment, normality and abnormality, inclusion, prevention, accommodation, and special education. In this revised and expanded edition, four new essays extend and elaborate the lines of inquiry by problematizing (to used